Colt Automatic Pistol…and the 1917 Smith right behind it. The one on the top there with the custom pistol grip. Hamer: “I’ll have a look at that Thompson submachine gun. You can watch the scene above, but so you don’t have to rewind it a bunch of times like I did, here’s the run down of what Hamer asks of the gun shop clerk as he goes through items he’d circled in a firearms catalog:
For some reason, the scene reminds me of the gun shop scene in The Terminator. I don’t know if a small town gun shop would have all this hardware on hand, but it was a much different time, so they just may have.
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Not only does he walk into a small gun shop and buy an entire two arms full of long guns and pistols with nary an ID presented-but the selections he makes are remarkable. I had to rewind it and watch the scene twice (ok, three times). After recruiting his old Ranger partner, Maney Gault (also retired) for the assignment, the two set out to do what they do best.įirst, Hamer stops at a gun shop to arm up.
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When Hamer was tapped to go after Bonnie and Clyde following a particularly brazen prison break, he was commissioned as an officer of the Texas Highway Patrol to hunt them down-hence the movie title. Though Hamer retired after 27 years, the commander of the Rangers allowed him to retain a Special Ranger commission as an active Senior Range Captain.In the movie, “Ma” (Kathie Bates) says that the state legislature had dissolved the Rangers, though its clear that is her policy. She then fired all the remaining Rangers and replaced them with her own appointees. After all, she was first elected after her husband “Pa” Ferguson, was impeached and forced to resign.About 40 Texas Rangers resigned rather than serve under Ma Ferguson for her second term. Ma Ferguson had a reputation for being corrupt. In actuality, the whole affair was a lot messier. Miriam Amanda Wallace “Ma” Ferguson (who was one of the first women elected to governor of a state and served two terms, from 1925 to 1927 and again from 1933 to 1935) had disbanded the Texas Rangers, according to the movie. All Rights Reserved.The story follows Frank Hamer (Costner), a retired Texas Ranger who built a legend for himself in the early 1900s. All content of the Dow Jones branded indices © S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC 2019 and/or its affiliates. Standard & Poor's and S&P are registered trademarks of Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC and Dow Jones is a registered trademark of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC. Dow Jones: The Dow Jones branded indices are proprietary to and are calculated, distributed and marketed by DJI Opco, a subsidiary of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and have been licensed for use to S&P Opco, LLC and CNN. Chicago Mercantile Association: Certain market data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. Factset: FactSet Research Systems Inc.2019. Market indices are shown in real time, except for the DJIA, which is delayed by two minutes. The FBI was a fledgling agency at the time of the couple's nationwide crime spree, and tracked them down through its sole area of jurisdiction: interstate auto theft. A submachine gun from one of their hideouts sold for $130,000 earlier this year, and a shotgun went for $80,000.īarrow and Parker were wanted for kidnapping, auto theft, robbery, burglary and 13 murders nationwide, including the killings of two police officers, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Parker and Barrow's death car items have fetched impressive bids in the past, including $85,000 for Barrow's bloodstained shirt. The auctioneer is keeping the sellers' names confidential. Livingston said Castellano considered it his lucky coin, but gave it away before the night in 1985 when he was shot dead in front of Sparks Steak House in New York. and is putting other items from the car up for bid - including blood-stained silk stockings, a makeup kit, a gold pocket watch and a silver dollar that was later owned by Mafia boss Paul Castellano. RR Auction is holding the sale Sunday in Nashua, N.H.
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