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Gerald Ford assassination attempt in Sacramento 1911, Fromme's pistol was sent to Rock Island Arsenal in Illinois and has a serial number of 94854. The pistol was used in the U.S. Army and later sold as Government surplus in 1913. At the time of the assassination attempt, the Colt .45 was not considered a common crime gun because "it's rather large, and not easily concealed." Harold E. "Zeke"/"Manny" Boro, born 1909, was a retired federal government engineering draftsman who, at ages 65 to 66, hung around the Manson family and supplied them with money as a "". Boro met Fromme in the spring of 1974 while