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Title: (Texas) Wilbarger County Sheriff's Office Selling Rare 1920s Machine Gun
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URL Source: http://www.texomashomepage.com/stor ... 0/15883/h4L1HFnqg0iFFaiOAUUsdA
Published: Mar 4, 2015
Author: David Gonzalez
Post Date: 2015-03-04 18:49:02 by X-15
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Views: 450
Comments: 10
Gun collectors, pay attention, because the Wilbarger County Sheriff's Office plans to sell a rare, fully automatic machine gun from the 1920s. Wilbarger County Sheriff Larry Lee says this 1920s Colt Thompson was obtained in the late 1930s by a former sheriff, free of charge, from a U.S. Navy surplus and has been locked up in a vault for 70 years. Lee says the gun is a rare 1921 model overstamped later with the year 1928 when the company began selling leftover '21 models. He says the gun is fully functional and has only been fired a few times. Lee says the gun is valued at more than $30,000 and selling it would benefit the community. "A gun that's this valuable I can sell and use those proceeds to buy all of my deputies new side arms, new rifles to carry in their patrol units; something that's going to make our officers safer, help protect the citizens and it's not going to cost our citizens one penny," Lee says. You can check out the gun for yourself by making an appointment with Hath at Butch's Guns in Vernon. 
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#2. To: X-15 (#0)
Perhaps a lack of interior wear supports that claim. But the exterior appears to have seen a good amount of handling at some point.
The wear is consistent with it's age and the fact that it's been the property of a sheriff's department. IMO, it looks damn clean. They bring crazy money, I should have bought one prior to May/1986!!!!
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