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[Firearms]

Close-up view of several pistols. Image includes several other items: a pocket watch, a switchblade, and three other items, perhaps timers. The image is not dated.

Police-seized contraband

Caption: "The tug Manhattan load to the gunwales with slot machines, pinball games, guns of all sorts, etc., as it pulled out of Pier 4 at the Battery to dump police-seized contraband into the...

Crime harvest

Caption: "Crime harvest--Police officials look over seized guns and ammunition before cargo was carried to sea on tug today and dumped overboard."

Safe, sound trophies

Caption: "Safe, sound trophies--Thomas J. Doyle, investigator in charge of Alcohol Tax Unit for Eastern District, looks over some erstwhile lethal weapons collected in unit's current drive to...

[Pistols]

Close-up views of five pistols labeled flint lock, cartridge, percussion, deringer, and colt.

Toy into weapon

Caption: "Toy into weapon--City Court Justice John E. Cone, Jr., right, shows Assemblyman Frank J. Pina a dangerous 'zip gun,' contrived from a toy Western pistol, a length of metal tubing, a...

Death-dealing toys

Caption: "Death-dealing toys--These guns are all homemade, have figured in a Brooklyn murder and other crimes, and are in the possession of the office of District Miles F. McDonald. The regular '...

Brownsville arsenal haul

Caption (from CRIM 0026): "Brownsville arsenal haul--Assistant District Attorneys Salvatore Rametta holding .25 caliber automatic, and Louis Andreozzi ... inspect weapons and ammunition rounded up...

Brownsville arsenal haul

Caption: "Brownsville arsenal haul--Assistant District Attorneys Salvatore Rametta holding .25 caliber automatic, and Louis Andreozzi ... inspect weapons and ammunition rounded up in homes of...

Weapons and ammunition

Caption: "The weapons and ammunition brought to the 5th Ave. police precinct before being turned over to the Ballistics Bureau for investigation."