# Did gangsters from the 1920s really carry their Tommy guns in banjo cases?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 9, 2003, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-gangsters-from-the-1920s-really-carry-their-tommy-guns-in-banjo-cases/147424 "2003-01-09T02:12:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![petcat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5fc32e/32.png) [@petcat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/petcat)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-gangsters-from-the-1920s-really-carry-their-tommy-guns-in-banjo-cases/147424/21 "2003-02-06T03:19:16Z")

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I live in a major suburban apartment. I play guitar. I also hunt.  
Walking out of the building and down the street with a guitar case generates FAR fewer hostile looks than a gun case, in fact, the girls in the hall might stop to talk.

While driving, whom do you suppose the local law enforcement sees as a bigger threat? The musician?

Let the turkeys quail at the sound of my six-string!

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**Author:** ![zoogirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b9bd4f/32.png) [@zoogirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoogirl)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-gangsters-from-the-1920s-really-carry-their-tommy-guns-in-banjo-cases/147424/22 "2003-02-06T03:52:58Z")

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> \*Originally posted by petcat \*  
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> Let the turkeys quail at the sound of my six-string! \*\*

Let the turkey’s QUAIL?!

Would that be a mixed metafowl?

(zoogirl slinks away…)

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