The Highwaymen
nunn
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I finally watched it all the way through, and was very impressed.
What was extra impressive was Captain Hamer's (Kevin Costner) shopping trip to a local gun store. He bought a Colt Monitor, a BAR, a Springfield 1903 with scope, a Remington model 11, a Winchester 94, a Thompson submachine gun with many extra mags, a few Colt 1911 autos, at least one 1917 Colt revolver, and thousands of rounds of ammunition.
He bought all this stuff and the shop owner helped him carry it to his car. It wasn't clear how he paid.
I do find it remarkable, even hard to believe, that a small mom & pop gun store, even in 1934, would have all this artillery in stock and available for cash & carry.
When Hamer stepped into the road to stop and arrest Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, he was carrying a minty Remington model 8, and he had (I think) a Colt SAA stuck into his waistband.
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Now, I gotta watch it!! Honestly don't think I'd know a Colt monitor or Colt 1917 pistol if it bit me in the ***, but I'm gonna be on the lookout for em'.
well it was just a movie and a lot of liberties are taken . however it is a good movie over all . I agree odds of a little gun shop in the middle of no where was slim to none to have it all the guns on his list but then again that was a time when the 2nd amendment actually had merit any one could buy just about any thing .
I have always had mixed feelings about the couple they were out right murderers bottom line . sure they may have given some to the poor and were hero's to many for fighting the system . but tell the families of the dead they left behind not so much
they really never got that much money for all there trouble and mostly all there time was running for there lifes hanging on by a thread was not so glorious and romantic as TV makes it seem to me they mostly just waiting on the inevitable which even Bonny knew and wrote about . Clyde was suppose to have had a fantastic memory and a great driver of the back roads and would drive for hours non stop . then again at that time county and state lines crossed and they were good to go .and no radios
I have also read a lot of locals ( LEO ) not wanting to risk there life and had to buy there own cop cars which were old and nothing like clydes new v8 fords they stole . JMHO and who could blame them the stay alive go home tonight thoughts I am sure helped the couple get away . fear of dying would do that to some one making a few dollars a month in a rural area
I did see the car when i was about 15 or 16 it was in a semi trailer traveling the country and stopped by the grocery store parking lot by the interstate about 1/2 mile from our house . I seem to recall it cost 50 cents or maybe a dollar to go in and walk around the car
I can say they made sure no one was getting out of the car the day they filled it full of holes
Good movie. “Manos arrivas, you sons of beeches “
It’s possible they might could have ordered those guns from Sears and Roebuck.
i ust watched it for the second time. what i found most interesting was the story was written from the law enforcement side of things instead of glorifying bonnie and clyde. i also liked the gun store scene. the colt monitor got me also, first i had heard of one.
They had plenty of firepower when the time came. The monitor is nothing but a BAR with a pistol grip. They were built first. A BAR is an awesome gun that runs out of ammo quickly. 20 rd mags go in a few quick burst. Best shot off the bi pod the gun is heavy like 16 pounds loaded. Recoil is not all that unreasonably but hip shooting with a sling is hit and miss. By the time you find the target from shooting and where the bullets are going ..out of ammo in the mag. Off the bipod is another story.
There's a video on YouTube of a colt monitor being fired in slo-mo. You can clearly see the barrel whipping profusely. Like a rubber stick.
While making up your list of heroes, keep in mind that Frank Hamer killed between 38 and 52 people and that didn't include Mexicans he considered were not worth counting.
From Wiki:
”In September 1948, he was called back to Ranger duty to play a small role in the notorious 1948 United States Senate election in Texas.[41][42] Former Governor Coke Stevenson hired him to accompany him to the Texas State Bank in Alice to examine the tally sheets for ballot box 13, which held ballots for his opponent Representative Lyndon Johnson which he knew to be fraudulent. Outside the bank stood two glowering groups of armed men. Hamer got out of the car, approached the first group, and said "*" and they left. The second group was blocking the doors of the bank, and he said "fall back" and they did.“
Great movie!
...Good movie, I like Costner...
...For awhile when I was very young, lived in the same neighborhood as Bob Alcorn...one of the men that shot Bonnie & Clyde...he was just another neighborhood "old guy"...
...My best friend lived across the street from him and his wife, another good friend, Mike, lived next door to Alcorn.
...One day in the summer several of us were in Mikes backyard and Alcorn was mowing his backyard...Alcorn just fell flat behind his mower...in a few minuets the Fire Dept., cops, and a lot of people showed up and were all over Alcorn and he was hauled away...he died. I never knew if it was a heart attack, heat stroke or what...think I'll look him up and see if it tells the cause of death...and what year that was, early 60's maybe...making myself feel old now...
Yep. That's the way it was back then.
Remember Col. Charles Askins? Prolific gun writer. World adventurer. Soldier. Lawman. Hunter. And so on. He claims to have killed 27 men, not counting n!%%#rs and Mexicans.
All pre WWII BAR's were US property with none released for private purchase. Colt produced at least two commercial versions, the R75 and the better known R80 which was called the Monitor which was marketed in 1931. Having learned their lessons form the criminal misuse of the Colt Thomason SMGs, the commercial rifles BARs were limited to export or police sales. These rifles would not be on a gun dealers shelf. BARs in either favor were stolen by criminals from National Guard armories or police stations. In a bizarre twist, it would actually be easier to buy a BAR today than it would have been in 1933- today, all you need now is $$$$$!
You say that like it's a bad thing.
Can you imagine it there were a lot of guys like Hamer today.. keeping the Mexicans out of the USA.