Toy into weapon

Toy into weapon
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Title: Toy into weapon
Description:

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 strong rubber band, and tape. Those are real bullets."

Date: 1955
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Creator: Lambert, Al.
More Details: Grease pencil cropping marks; retouched.
Stamped on verso: date: Jan. 2, 1955; "Brooklyn Eagle;" "Lambert."
Title from caption on verso.
Collection: Crime
Subject: Firearms
Judges
Legislators
Pistols
Institution: Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection.
Medium: Gelatin silver prints.
Photographic prints.
Portraits.
Rights: Copyright restrictions apply to the use of this image. For more information or to obtain a photographic reproduction of this image, contact the Brooklyn Collection at Brooklyn Public Library.
ID: CRIM 0021