# Bureau of Investigation report, 1 September 1933: Ordnance Division traces Colt .45 pistols and Browning automatic rifles taken from the Barrow gang

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Form No. 1 report by Dwight Brantley, Washington, D.C., listing by serial number the Colt .45 pistols and Browning automatic rifles the War Department says were stolen from Illinois and Oklahoma National Guard units.

Part 02 of the FBI Vault's Bonnie and Clyde file, page 81 of the viewer. A Form No. 1 report by Dwight Brantley, made at Washington, D.C., on 1 September 1933, in the case titled Clyde Champion Barrow, National Motor Vehicle Theft Act. The form's header reads file number 26-3243; the stamp on the page reads 26-4114-94, dated 5 September 1933.

The War Department's Ordnance Division advised that Colt .45 pistols #237489, #505915 and #435167 and Browning automatic rifles #252152 and #251620 were United States property stolen from Company E, 129th Infantry, Illinois National Guard, Chicago, and that Browning automatic rifle #86221 was stolen from Company A, 180th Infantry, Oklahoma National Guard, Wagoner, Oklahoma. The Ordnance Division had no record of Colt .45 pistol #327794.

This is the page the section uses for the serial numbers. The report traces the weapons to their owners; it does not describe any shooting.

**Object:** Typed Bureau report on Form No. 1, one page  
**Maker:** Dwight Brantley, Bureau of Investigation  
**Date:** 1 September 1933  
**Provenance:** Bureau file 26-4114, released in the FBI Vault  
**Appears in:** FBI Vault, Bonnie and Clyde, Part 02, page 81

## Sources

- FBI Records: The Vault: https://vault.fbi.gov/Bonnie%20and%20Clyde/Bonnie%20and%20Clyde%20Part%2002%20/view