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Who'd want that?!

thesupermonkeythesupermonkey Member Posts: 3,905 ✭✭
edited December 2001 in General Discussion
Did anyone else see a certain auction for a $220,000.00 Buckmark 22 supposedly used in a homicide? Who in the hell would want that?!
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  • YankeeClipperYankeeClipper Member Posts: 669 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'm just a little courous about the posts about the gun that Gary Gilmore used. Crime guns have always been an auction item. Look at the most recent auction ,ie, The gun used by Oswald that killed officer Tibbs in Dallis.We had a family split up over the donation of Kid Curry's pistol and The Dutch Henry poession battle goes on. If I'm missing somthing: Let me know.
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  • RembrandtRembrandt Member Posts: 4,486 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Celebrities or notority of a person and their belongings have always produced opportunist's....look at movie stars and their cars, clothes, jewelry...etc. The ambulance that carried Kennedy and Oswald to the hospital is now a display item in a small museum. Osama's AK47 will no doubt be a sought after item just as the skulls of wicked doers were collected centuries ago. The reallity is that someone will find these items a draw for a business, resturant, or private collection......."A fool and his money are soon parted"... [This message has been edited by Rembrandt (edited 12-27-2001).]
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  • john carrjohn carr Member Posts: 1,717 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Y. C., I've always wondered about what happened to Harvey Logan's (aka Kid Curry) .45 revolver. Where is it's final resting place?
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  • beachmaster73beachmaster73 Member Posts: 3,011 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    SaxonPig has this one right on the numbers. De gustibus non disputandum est...concerning taste there is no argument! Now for as inconsequencial a pistol as that Buckmark is I'd guess even to a collector of criminal memorabilia its not worth more than a grand or two...nah maybe 700 bucks. Maybe he'll find a sucker that will drop a little more on it. Beach
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  • nunnnunn Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 36,078 ******
    edited November -1
    The name of the Dallas PD officer killed by Lee Oswald was J.D. Tippitt.Interestingly, I have photocopies of the arrest warrants for Lee Oswald and Jack Ruby.
    Certified SIG pistol armorer/FFL Dealer/Full time Peace Officer, Moderator of the General Discussion Board on Gunbroker. Visit www.gunbroker.com, the premier gun auction site on the Net! Email davidnunn@texoma.net Jesus is Lord!
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  • BullzeyeBullzeye Member Posts: 3,560
    edited November -1
    Jesus Christ, Saxon.Dont start up with that now. I dont think I would be able to keep my lunch down if Dread shows up.
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  • varmit huntervarmit hunter Member Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    saxon,dano stirs the pot with a spoon.I think you used a 200 hp outboard motor on this one.Let me see,helmet,flack jacket,sand bags.Im ready.
    A unarmed man is a subject.A armed man is a citizen.
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  • YankeeClipperYankeeClipper Member Posts: 669 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    First off THANKS nunn for correcting me on the officers name.And john carr. Kid Currys .45 is still up in the air.A state museum curator clams that the family that gave it to him on loan gave it to the museum perminatly, But an old judge wrote in his ledger that was read sometime after his death that he had if fact thrown it off a bridge.somewhere.
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  • YankeeClipperYankeeClipper Member Posts: 669 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    GOOD LORD!!!! $220,000.00 I went back and re-read the bid price, I guess I won't be bidding. I was thinking at $220.00 that wouldn't be a bad price.
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  • HAIRYHAIRY Member Posts: 23,606
    edited November -1
    Re: the question of who buys this? Well, while I was in the Middle East, I was able to purchase the entire ORIGINAL CROSS! The seller, (a Christian), swore to me that this one was hidden from the world for almost 2,000 years, but now that his family was financially bankrupt, they had to sell it. After some haggling, we agreed on $5000.00 US dollars. BTW, I'll be putting pieces of it up for auction as soon as I get them placed into some nice protective covers.
    It's not what you know that gets you in trouble, it's what you know that just ain't so!
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  • ndbillyndbilly Member Posts: 1,573 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Back and to the left...Back and to the left...back...
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  • robsgunsrobsguns Member Posts: 4,581 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Maybe I havent been as diligent as some of you guys when I scan the auctions, and someone is actually bidding on stuff like this, with that kind of money here, but....What kind of moron puts a gun like that up for auction on THIS site? Someone else said it before I think, but that gun, if he has a clue as to who is bidding around here, belongs at a auction put on by Sotheby's, Christies' or some other site, where people have money and no common sense.
    SSgt Ryan E. Roberts, USMC
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  • steve45steve45 Member Posts: 2,940 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Well lets try a similar situation. A while back a gunsmith I hang out with had a pistol he had bought from the police dept. It was a GP100 ruger, it had a been used in a suicide, and had a stain (discolored) area on one side from the pool of blood it had lain in. He was selling it cheap, as I remember, 125.00 dollars or so. Would you have bought it? (I didnt)
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  • varmit huntervarmit hunter Member Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    In some way,I see these prices on high profile guns,Making a point for the antis.We say it's not the gun,But the person using it.Then someone will spend a large amount of money on a TOOL,That was used by a crminal.To me it makes it apper that the gun was a co conspirator in the crime. Just my obersavation......
    A unarmed man is a subject.A armed man is a citizen.
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  • robsgunsrobsguns Member Posts: 4,581 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'd have bought the GP100, and promptly removed the stain, one way or the other, and if it was stainless, oh so easy. A good buy on a gun I cant pass up, it has no memory, and mine is pretty short, so neither of us will remember where its been.
    SSgt Ryan E. Roberts, USMC
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