{"id":74358,"date":"2017-06-01T08:14:58","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T12:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=74358"},"modified":"2017-06-01T08:14:58","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T00:13:01","slug":"st-louis-police-department-sell-27-tommy-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/st-louis-police-department-sell-27-tommy-guns\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Louis Police Department to Sell 27 Tommy Guns"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_74359\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Tommy-guns.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"st-louis-police-department-sell-27-tommy-guns\" title=\"St. Louis Police Department to Sell 27 Tommy Guns\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-74359\" title=\"St. Louis Police Department to Sell 27 Tommy Guns\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-74359\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Tommy-guns-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"St. Louis Police Department to Sell 27 Tommy Guns\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Tommy-guns-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Tommy-guns-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Tommy-guns.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-74359\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The collection is valued at more than $770,000. (<em>Photo: St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The St. Louis Police Department has decided to sell 27 of its historic and valuable Thompson submachine guns in an effort to raise the funds necessary to purchase new duty firearms for its officers, according to a report from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/news\/local\/crime-and-courts\/st-louis-police-sell-surplus-weapons-including-tommy-guns-for\/article_458188dd-f018-54fd-9d11-cdd498cf8ecd.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"st-louis-police-department-sell-27-tommy-guns\" title=\"St. Louis Police Department to Sell 27 Tommy Guns\">St. Louis Post-Dispatch.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More commonly known as \u201cTommy guns,\u201d Thompson submachine guns were chambered in 45 ACP and used by both gangsters and law enforcement in the early twentieth century. The St. Louis PD used their arsenal to fight organized crime and bootlegging operations during the Prohibition era, but the guns have been in storage since the 1960s.<\/p>\n<p>Kentucky-based Midwest Distributors has agreed to pay $22,000 for each of the iconic rifles, but they will likely sell the old police arsenal to private parties for much, much more.<\/p>\n<p>A local dealer valued the entire collection in 2014 at $770,000, and two 1920s Colt-made models are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/news\/local\/crime-and-courts\/st-louis-police-to-auction-gangland-era-tommy-guns-to\/article_e44a4553-e50f-5ec4-ab9c-3cfb3e9ecf65.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"st-louis-police-department-sell-27-tommy-guns\" title=\"St. Louis Police Department to Sell 27 Tommy Guns\">worth<\/a> $31,000 apiece. The cheapest gun in the collection, an Auto-Ordnance\/Savage M1 from 1942, was appraised at a mere $14,000.<\/p>\n<p>St. Louis police considered auctioning the submachine guns themselves in 2014, and they could have raised considerably more money selling directly to collectors. But finding nearly 30 collectors willing to acquire the necessary federal permissions turned out to be too difficult, which forced the department to pursue an alternative course of action.<\/p>\n<p>The NFA requirements severely limit the market, SLPD\u2019s purchasing manager, Carol Shepard, told the Post-Dispatch.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the department is happy to be able to pay for new handguns without dipping into taxpayer funds. The Tommy gun sale combined with the sale of the department\u2019s old handguns will pay for 1,525 new 9 mm Beretta handguns as well as $350,000 worth of new AR-15s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe original reason to sell the weapons was to purchase new duty weapons, and we did so well on the sale, we will be able to purchase rifles as well, by our own actions without using any budget money,\u201d Shepard said. \u201cThat was the most important thing for us. We made our own money to take care of our own problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a part of history. I\u2019m going to miss the weapon simply because it is a part of our history,\u201d Christopher \u201cBlake\u201d Tucker, the department\u2019s sergeant of the firearms division, told the Post-Dispatch. \u201cThere\u2019s a side of me that I hate to see them go, but if it\u2019s going to benefit the officers in the future, then I\u2019ll have to live with that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A local dealer valued the entire collection in 2014 at $770,000, and two 1920s Colt-made models are worth $31,000 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