10 Guns Favored by Gangsters

On May 23, 1934, bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde were gunned down by law enforcement. For a change, the lawmen had the upper hand as far as firepower goes. In the 1920's and 1930's gangsters had been arming themselves with automatic and semi-automatic weapons and out-gunning the police, with the police mostly armed with .38 caliber revolvers and sometimes 12 gauge pump action shotguns. On numerous occasions then and even in the 1970's and 1980's the police were woefully under-armed, but that is changing now. Here is a list of some of the favorite gangster guns of the 1920's and 1930's (and by gangsters, we mean hard corps criminals, not the junkie holding up a liquor store).