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Author:  Ace [ Thu Dec 05, 2019 12:08 am ]
Post subject:  Help identify this rifle ?
pick this up yesterday at a yard sale have no idea what make/model it is
there is no stamp making on it.... :?
any ideas ?

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Author:  Dukemeister [ Thu Dec 05, 2019 6:32 am ]
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No idea, but it looks like it can hit the high notes.
Author:  Rupertt [ Thu Dec 05, 2019 6:55 am ]
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Ace wrote:
pick this up yesterday at a yard sale have no idea what make/model it is
there is no stamp making on it.... :?
any ideas ?


I believe this is a "Chi-Town Bassoon".
A Short-barrelled Scatter Gun, like the Blunderbuss that came before it, and the Shotgun that came after, the Chi-Town Bassoon played a major role in Prohibition-era Chicago.

While Al Capone and his Mob had the "Chicago Typewriter", his rival Benny "David" Goodman, the King of the Swing Gang made the Chi-Town Bassoon famous.

Like the Thompson Sub Machine Gun, the Chi-Town Bassoon was often concealed in a Musical Instrument Case; hence the term "Face the Music".

Great Find Ace...!!!
Author:  YepYep [ Thu Dec 05, 2019 7:21 am ]
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Is it missing something? As I only see a scope and a pipe....

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Author:  Ace [ Thu Dec 05, 2019 11:23 am ]
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Dukemeister wrote:
No idea, but it looks like it can hit the high notes.

that was good i like that... :supz: :lol: :wink:
Author:  Ace [ Thu Dec 05, 2019 11:31 am ]
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Rupertt wrote:
Ace wrote:
pick this up yesterday at a yard sale have no idea what make/model it is
there is no stamp making on it.... :?
any ideas ?


I believe this is a "Chi-Town Bassoon".
A Short-barrelled Scatter Gun, like the Blunderbuss that came before it, and the Shotgun that came after, the Chi-Town Bassoon played a major role in Prohibition-era Chicago.

While Al Capone and his Mob had the "Chicago Typewriter", his rival Benny "David" Goodman, the King of the Swing Gang made the Chi-Town Bassoon famous.

Like the Thompson Sub Machine Gun, the Chi-Town Bassoon was often concealed in a Musical Instrument Case; hence the term "Face the Music".

Great Find Ace...!!!

wow I had no idea we had a historian amongst us, good eye Rupertt i think your correct... 8) :lol:
Author:  YepYep [ Thu Dec 05, 2019 11:58 am ]
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Yeah~ pretty impressive and it's just like visiting a museum and have a professor besides!

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Author:  Daryl [ Thu Dec 05, 2019 12:57 pm ]
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Looks like a Clarinet (gun) with a scope on it.
The "high notes" - that was good.
Author:  Ace [ Thu Dec 05, 2019 1:25 pm ]
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think its a soprano 360 whole note with scope.... :mrgreen:
Author:  Penage Guy [ Thu Dec 05, 2019 4:36 pm ]
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It's unmistakable. It's the disguised weapon built by Q-branch and Major Geoffrey Boothroyd for MI6 back in the early 1960s. It was specially made for a double O agent posing as an orchestra member whose mission was to eliminate a Smersh agent cleverly disguised as an itinerant music conductor. This "clarinet" was not only a functional musical instrument but also a single shot .32 ACP which, in highly trained hands and lips, was deadly accurate out to 30 yards. Unfortunately the actual operational use of the clarinet-like weapon remains classified.
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