Firearms post

The St. Valentine's Day Massacre

On February 14, 1929 seven men were waiting that morning around 10:30 A.M in a red brick warehouse. The building was located on Chicago's North side. Three men dressed in police uniforms and two dressed in civilians arrived in a police car. Witnesses say they heard gun shots made by an automatic weapon. When the police left neighbors went inside to check and found a bloody scene. Seven unarmed men laying on the floor shot multiple times. The shooters had left behind 70 cartridge casings that were identified as .45-caliber Thompson submachine guns. Calvin Goddard a cardiologist from New York came to investigate and went to the police station and compared all their machine guns with what they had and cleared the police. Ten months later the police raided the hit man All Capone and found two machine guns and gave them to Goddard who test fired the weapons into a cotton wad and analyzing them under magnification proved they were used in the massacre that sent at least one killer to prison. The story goes on to explain this incident was a gang war between Capone and George Moran. Moran's men had been lured there and Capone had hoped George would have been among them but wasn't.