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Wow, still no answer on who stole the firearms.
SPRINGFIELD — More than five decades ago, staff at the Springfield Armory Museum walked in to discover someone had pried open a display case and taken a rare Model 1842 percussion cap pistol.
On that same day — June 22, 1971 — the Museum of Connecticut History in Hartford was also hit: A thief or thieves made off with a Colt Whitneyville Walker revolver, an early design of gunmaker Samuel Colt.
Those guns are among 50 antique firearms finally coming home."
SPRINGFIELD — More than five decades ago, staff at the Springfield Armory Museum walked in to discover someone had pried open a display case and taken a rare Model 1842 percussion cap pistol.
On that same day — June 22, 1971 — the Museum of Connecticut History in Hartford was also hit: A thief or thieves made off with a Colt Whitneyville Walker revolver, an early design of gunmaker Samuel Colt.
Those guns are among 50 antique firearms finally coming home."
Stolen antique guns, some ‘priceless,’ will return to Massachusetts after long federal probe
Guns and a powder horn taken from the Belchertown and Longmeadow historical associations and the Springfield Armory have been recovered after 50 years, closing cold cases from Mississippi to Massachusetts.
www.masslive.com