12 Most EXPENSIVE and Famous FIREARMS of ALL TIME

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[Music] hi everybody several shots are able to change the course of history and the weapon itself may obtain a status of a really invaluable gizmo and today you'll see for yourself starting with the attributes of the popular gangster duo Bonnie and Clyde we will explore the Wild West and find out the price on pistols are made from a precious four million year old meteorite we shall finish with a literally priceless firearm whatever price you're going to mention it'll still be worth more here are top of the most famous and expensive specimens of firearms in the world [Music] this 45 caliber Colt belong to Wyatt Erb the fearless and unscrupulous sheriff of Tombstone the lawmen and gambler of those times became widely known due to books and movies of the western genre in which he played the main role and even if in real life the famous shooter was a rather controversial figure which was the reason why his revolver went under the hammer for as many as two hundred and twenty-five thousand US dollars this exact Colt model was involved in the most known scene in the history of the Wild West the gunfight at the OK Corral which is next to Tombstone Town probably as many films were shot about this gunfight as about the Napoleon's Battle of Waterloo the Earp brothers and Doc Holliday shot down the whole Clinton family thieves and murderers in just a half a minute all public agents except Wyatt Earp were wounded and that day no enemies bullet hit him however just one shot of his revolver was enough to inflict a mortal injury to the legendary Wild West robber daring and unpredictable Jesse James a Smith & Wesson of the 44 caliber was the weapon of choice which the Jesse himself presented to the legendary killer Robert Ford as a sign of reconciliation when Robert Ford joined Jesse's gang nobody would ever assume that this cowardly youngster had made a secret arrangement with Missouri governor to kill the leader he instantly fired the shot when the unarmed Jesse turned his back to him even though he was a robber and murderer he was mourned by whole America as the best son he was some kind of Robin Hood a hero to such a degree that there was probably not one single boy who wasn't dreaming of waking up one fine morning as Jesse James [Music] because of that the interest in the weapon of his assassination was quite obvious in 2003 the revolver was sold for as many as three hundred and fifty thousand US dollars these two Colts belong to the most popular gangster duo Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow besides the love for each other they had two other strong passions robberies and weapons and although Bonnie and Clyde had been dead for a long time they continued to drain bank accounts from the other side at an auction an anonymous bidder paid half a million dollars for two guns of the notorious gangsters the 38 caliber Colts of Bonnie and the 45 caliber of Clyde which were on them when the police shot the couple drew the highest bid at the auction in Nashua they went under the hammer for five hundred and four thousand US dollars the Henry rifle of 1860 is not famous due to its owner but to its history it was invented by the engineer Benjamin Tyler Henry one year before the beginning of the Civil War in USA its emergence marked a turning point in the history of firearms being the first successful weapon with a lever-action repeater it has virtually changed the rules of the game it was a 16 shot rifle in this at the time when most other rifles were muzzle-loaded so reloading took a lot of time the soldiers even used to say the rifle you could load on Sunday and shoot all week long altogether 14,000 units have been manufactured 400 of them on the iron frame nowadays exactly these rifles are among the most valuable for the collectors one of them was auctioned for 603 thousand US dollars this double-barreled gun belonged to Theodore Roosevelt and is a dream for every collector it is known that the 26th President of the United States was seriously keen on hunting shortly after the end of his presidency he started out for the African expedition taking his rifle with him within 13 months several thousand animals were killed with this weapon including elephants and white rhinoceroses the effigies of which are still preserved in certain American museums in 2010 the gun was sold in an auction for eight hundred and sixty two thousand dollars another interesting fact Roosevelt who as we stated loved hunting carried a bullet in his body until the end of his life due to a failed assassination attempt the operation for removing the bullet was too risky at those times and next in line are the legendary revolvers created by Samuel Colt on your screen you can now see the Colt Walker designed in 1846 in collaboration with the former Texas Ranger captain Samuel Walker he offered the inventor to develop a powerful army revolver for the horseman did not quite catch on in the army but on the other hand it gained recognition as one of the most powerful cap and ball revolvers at that time by the way this model is the favorite revolver of Clint Eastwood very few original Colt Walker revolvers reached our time one of these revolvers was sold in an auction for a record son for such a type of weapon nine hundred and twenty thousand dollars and an even higher sum was bid for one of the most known Colt revolvers Colt Paterson hero of all American westerns referred to as the Wild West Conqueror was auctioned for nine hundred and seventy seven thousand five hundred dollars at that time it was the first functioning revolver with primer ignition in all time patented by Samuel Colt on February 25th 1836 the revolvers such as Colt Paterson and Colt Walker were popular with Texas Rangers giving them a significant advantage both in firepower and reloading speed the designs of 1839 allowed loading the weapons without disassembling it thanks to which the fighters were able to reload the weapon without getting off the horse the next pistols was valued incredibly high it belonged to one of the most important figures in world history Simon Bolivar he was the one who spearheaded the fight for the independence of Venezuela Colombia Ecuador Panama and Bolivia from the Spanish crown he is the father of Latin America two unique pistols followed him through all trials and were manufactured by one of the most famous gun makers of the 19th century Nicolas Noelle boots a who was the official gunsmith - Napoleon Bonaparte this pair of pistols with a flintlock bear which have without any doubt blood traces of Spanish Viceroy on it were sold in 2004 at an auction for 1 million six hundred and eighty seven thousand five hundred US dollars for nearly two million dollars these Horseman's pistols from the days of the revolutionary struggle for independence of the American States went under the hammer one of their owners was the 7th President of the United States Jackson but the first owner was of course George Washington many consider them as the most important weapons in the American history and symbols of the revolution today they can be seen in the Museum of Pennsylvania however it turns out that among the most expensive pistols on our planet are alien ones the Kubo guns company presented the most expensive set of guns worldwide dubbed big bang the name big bang can be explained by the material from which they are made these firearms are crafted from a meteorite to be more exact from the Gibeon meteorite that fell on the territory of today's namibia around 4 billion years ago 26 tons of the cosmic bodies chunks were found in 1836 tons of these chunks went to scientists hundreds of kilograms have been handed over to museums in 2015 the Cobo guns company also purchased 77 pounds of this meteorite and produced them two one-of-a-kind pistols from it both pistols were created in a fashion that resembles the legendary colt 1911 the meteorite colt pistols are sold as a pair own and are worth 4.5 million dollars according to rumors the value of this rifle is not less after all it was the rifle that killed John F Kennedy the only official suspect in this case was Lee Harvey Oswald the Commission found Oswald guilty for the death of the 35th President of the United States in the summary statements of the Commission it has been written that all three shots were fired from this very rifle the Italian Carcano of 38 caliber [Music] Oswald's weapon has been sold by his wife to a collector from Denver John King naturally the rifle remained in the possession of the authorities during investigation but afterwards it was handed over to King at least that's what he thought in the next year King tried his luck at an auction in order to get the rifle back into his collection he even tried to sue the government for five million dollars because of the damages that had been done but everything he was able to receive was the amount of three hundred and fifty US dollars in compensation the true value of this weapon far exceeds five million dollars and in general one can't simply imagine what the price of such a gizmo could be and finally the weapon of which the value nobody can determine this pocket pistol was sold for merely twenty five dollars but after it had been used to assassinate the 16th President of the United States it became priceless in 1865 the actor John Boothe changed the course of history by shooting Abraham Lincoln liberator of the slaves and a national hero with the help of said pistol from the company Philadelphia derringer due to this the pistol is sometimes referred to as the derringer Lincoln booths pistol is officially considered the most expensive in the world since experts believe it is impossible to determine its value whatever price you are going to mention it'll still be worth more I hope you liked this video and thank you all for watching you

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Length: 11min 26sec (686 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 02 2017

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