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Disposition

Firearms submitted to the Lab for disposition that are already well represented in the collection are slated for destruction.

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The majority of firearms in the collection are from adjudicated cases. Occasionally, some are purchased if they’re pertinent to a case. Some are even donated to the Laboratory.

"Pretty Boy" Floyd

The collection includes one of gangster “Pretty Boy” Floyd’s Colt Model 1911 pistols. This particular pistol once hung on Director J. Edgar Hoover’s so-called “wall of shame,” which included weapons belonging to criminals who were sought by the Bureau.

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