Cool Guns

Wild Bill Hickok’s ivory-gripped Colt Navy revolvers, the Springfield rifle buried beside him, the .32s he carried when Jack McCall shot him, and the gun that killed him. Plus what the same guns cost new.

Billy the Kid carried a Colt and a Winchester 1873, killed a deputy with his own shotgun, and died by the $6 million Colt. Every gun, what it sold for, the backwards tintype, and what the guns cost new.

The FBI found Ma Barker dead beside a Thompson after the 1935 Lake Weir shootout and made her Bloody Mama, the gang’s mastermind. The gun, the gunfight, the legend Hoover built, and what a Tommy gun costs now.

The gangster Machine Gun Kelly got his Thompson and his nickname from his wife, and may never have shot anyone. The gun, the Urschel kidnapping, the G-Men legend, and why the singer MGK shares his name.

John Dillinger robbed banks with a Thompson, broke jail with a wooden gun, hid a derringer in his sock and died reaching for a Colt pocket pistol. Every Dillinger gun, what they sold for, and what they cost now.

Baby Face Nelson killed three FBI agents, more than anyone in history. His full-auto Lebman 1911, the Colt Monitor he carried at Barrington, the vest the FBI still has, and the guns that stopped him.

Pretty Boy Floyd carried two Colt .45s the FBI called machine pistols, and died with both still loaded. The guns, the Kansas City Massacre that armed the FBI, and the Tommy gun that killed him.

Clyde Barrow loved the Browning Automatic Rifle, carried a sawed-off 16-gauge Browning Auto-5 that just sold for $1 million, and Bonnie died with a .38 taped to her thigh. Every gun in the story, and the posse’s.

No. The 2011 Chicago police report says a 16-year-old Chief Keef pointed a handgun at officers and the officers fired and missed. The gun, the plea, the gun range video and where the AK-47 and Draco stories come from.