Lebman developed two models of his baby machine guns, one using the. At one time much later, when I was visiting Washington, DC, I made an appointment with the FBI, and they were happy to bring out their collection of my dad’s guns for me to see” It scared him so much that he invented and installed a compensator on the muzzle to control the recoil.
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Our shop had a firing range in the basement, and when he was experimenting with a Model 1911 on full automatic, the 3rd or 4th round went off directly over head, through the floor, and I was visiting above at the time. He thought they were charming, wealthy, oil men who were interested in guns, and even invited them to his house for his wife to make them dinner when I was about 3 or 4. He told me many stories about the customers who he later found out were John Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson. Lebman (his name was not Harold, as quoted in the article), and I worked with him from the time I was 10 years old (1937) until he developed Alzheimers in 1976. The Lebman “baby machineguns” were used in most and resulted in the deaths of FBI agents. When the FBI attempted to apprehend those killers, firefights erupted in to now nearly legendary events. He modified multiple guns for the criminals of the day supposedly not aware of their real occupation, thinking they were newly rich oilmen. Lebman was a talented gun smith and tinkerer. The man who provided those “baby machine guns” the gangster was a TX gun smith named Hyman Lebman. Sad to say those men happened to be murderous bank robbers Dillinger and Lester Gillis. Long before the idea of the PDW ( personal defense weapon) existed for military and VIP protection, there were some men who felt that a full auto M1911 would be just the ticket. Is there anything the Colt Model M1911 can’t do? I certainly don’t think so.