President & CEO of Centaur Performance Group, creators of the world’s fastest street legal supercars in the world
Los Angeles, California – January 31, 2012 – On January 21, 2012, a secret bidder bought two guns reportedly owned by renowned and murderous bank robbers’ Bonnie & Clyde at Springfield, Missouri’s Mayo Auction Realty. Spending $210,000 on a .45-caliber Thompson submachine gun (known as a “Tommy gun”) and an 1897 12-gauge Winchester shotgun, was purchaser Bruce McMahan, financier, philanthropist and owner of the Centaur Performance Group, creator of the Maxximus G Force, the world’s fastest street legal fossil fuel powered supercar and the Maxximus LNG 2000, which earlier this week eclipsed the pre-existing Maxximus records making it the fastest LNG powered car in the world. The all carbon-fiber cars were engineered in Indianapolis by designer Marlon Kirby. In addition, Centaur is also developing a consumer-targeted line of vehicles that can be powered by all three-fuel types. Further details of the Maxximus LNG 2000 will be announced next week.

Said McMahan, “I am enormously proud to add these historic items to my firearms collection. They are iconic pieces of Americana that truly represent the turn of an era.”

The auction had over 100 participants and the infamous weaponry far exceeded pre-sales estimates of $25,000.

The guns were taken in a police...