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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.

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"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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