Bonnie and Clyde were on the TV...

[Calimero]

The Assault Group also sell BAR in pack of 10;
http://www.theassaultgroup.co.uk/store/product.php?productid=299&cat=27&page=1

 

[Orctrader]

The Assault Group also sell BAR in pack of 10;
http://www.theassaultgroup.co.uk/store/product.php?productid=299&cat=27&page=1

 

Thanks 

[Doc Twilight]

Just to add to the discussion.. No, the Tommy gun was not solely the invention of Hollywood. It could at one time be bought from the Sears Catalog by mail order. I don't think everybody ordered one when he got his Christmas Ham and silk stockings for the missus, but...

I'm certain not everybody carried one, but they were definitely in use, along with a lot of the other weapons mentioned. Some of the better armed cops had Tommys and BARs, too. I think the practice of having to buy one's own weapon probably varied from state to state.

-Doc

[archangel1]

Bob Murch will be adding a BAR-armed copper to his Pulp Figures range.

[leadfool]

A thompson submachinegun and the Monitor a civilian version of the BAR were both available for sale.  However they were not cheap running about as much as a used car.  The motor gangsters (Bonnie& Clyde, Dillinger etc.) of the era found it cheaper to simply steal them from National Guard armories.  The Al Capone type gangsters would at least some of the time actually buy them. 

Now that might make for a great game, two or more rival gangs both trying to rob the same small town National Guard armory, with maybe the FBI there to pick up some weapons or the local police dropping by for chat.  The actual National guard might be returning from a weekend manuver.  Some Moonshiners are there to deliver a few truck loads of booze to some Capone hoods there to pick it up.  Might make a fun game.