in no particular order......
The Derringer percussion pistol that John Wilkes Booth used to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln.
The assassination took place at Ford's theater in Washington D.C. on Good Friday, April 14th, 1865.
The Italian Mannlicher Carcano Rifle used to shoot President John F Kennedy on Friday November 22nd, 1963.
The Rohm/RG .22 revolver used by John Hinkley in the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan outside the Hilton Hotel in Washington D.C. on March 30th, 1981.
The revolver used by John Zahm to make an attempt at murdering Teddy Roosevelt, the bullet did not even slow down the "Bull Moose" he went on with his public appearance. Teddy died years later with the bullet still in his chest
Lee Harvey Oswald's Smith & Wesson Victory model revolver used to kill Dallas Police Officer J.D. Tippit
The Beretta M1934 pistol used to kill Mohandas K "Mahatma" Ghandi on January 30th, 1948 by Nathuram Godse
The Charter Arms .38 Special revolver used by Mark David Chapman to kill John Lennon outside the Dakota Apartments in New York on December 8th, 1980.
Ironically he purchased the gun from someone named "Ono".
The .380 Cal FN Pistol that Gavrilo Princip used to kill Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand & his wife Sophie, triggering the first World War. The date was June 28th, 1914, the place was Sarajevo.
Still this gun with the serial # obliterated (usually a sign of someone hiding something) sold at auction for $225,000.
The Remington 760 Gamemaster rifle with Redfield 2-7X Scope used by James Earl Ray to kill Martin Luther King in Memphis on April 4th, 1968.
On July 11, 1804, Vice President Aaron Burr and former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, used these Dueling Pistols to settle personal & political differences. Alexander Hamilton died of the gunshot wound he received the following day.
The incident ruined Burr's political career and made Hamilton a martyr. Alexander Hamilton's portrait has been on the U.S. $10 bill since around the time of the Civil War.
The Walther PP said to have been used by Adolph Hitler to commit suicide as the Red Army approached the Reich Chancellery in Berlin, the date was April 30th, 1945
This gun started the greatest conspiracy theories in history.
This is the Colt Cobra .38 revolver used by Jack Ruby to kill Lee Harvey Oswald, just 48hrs after President Kennedy Died.
One weird twist of fate, John F. Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby all spent their last moments at Parkland Hospital in Dallas.
The FN Model 1910 used to assassinate Louisiana Politician Huey "The Kingfish" Long. The shooting happened just one month after he announced he would run for President. On September 8th, 1935, Dr. Carl Weiss shot The Kingfish in the abdomen, from 4 feet away. Huey died two days later from complications relating to the wound.
This .22 Iver Johnson Cadet revolver was used by Sirhan Sirhan to kill Bobby Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, June 5, 1968.
The Kel-Tec pistol used by George Zimmerman in defense of his life on February 26, 2012. Ending the life of 19 year old Trevon Martin.
The cut down Browning shotgun owned by Clyde Barrow, he called it "the whip it"
Bonnie & Clyde were killed by a posse led by Frank Hamer in Bienville Parish, Louisiana on May 23, 1934
The home had been lived in by many celebrities besides Roman Polanksi & Sharon Tate including: Terry Melcher & Candice Bergan, Cary Grant & Dyann Cannon, Henry Fonda and others.
This French MAS submachine gun was used by Italian partisans to end the life of fascist Benito "Il Duce" Mussolini on April 28th, 1945.
This is the only known picture of the gun as it was stolen from the Smithsonian Museum at some point.
The pistol was given to Gerald Ford's Presidential Museum and put on display.
This High Standard Double Nine .22 revolver was used by serial killer Aileen Wournos to kill 7 men between November of 1989 & November of 1990.
This Tec-9 pistol was used by Dylan Klebold in the Columbine Highschool shooting.
and the Hi-Point 9mm carbine used by Eric Harris in the same attack.
These two guns have provenance showing they once belonged to Alfonse "Scarface" Capone.
On January 7th, 1973 Black Panther Mark Essex, after killing some folks in the Howard Johnson Downtown Hotel in New Orleans, set fire to some curtains and then made his way to the roof where he began shooting Police Officers with a Ruger .44 Magnum Carbine, he shot 19 people, 9 of which died. This picture shows an investigator carrying a taped together rifle. From my research and the few available pictures, it appears the full auto gun-fire from the Marine helicopter cut Essex's gun stock in pieces.
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This AR-15 Semi-Auto rifle was used by The "Beltway Sniper" team of John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo to kill ten people and injure 3 others during a 20 day period in October 2002. Interestingly, John Muhammad (then John Williams) was 10 years old and living in nearby Baton Rouge when Mark Essex committed his heinous act. Perhaps this had an affect on the young social retard? |
This M-1 Carbine/Pistol was used by Patty Hearst in the famous San Francisco bank robbery with the Symbionese Liberation Army (April 15th, 1974). She later claimed that she had been kidnapped and brainwashed by the leftist group.
Interestingly Bill Clinton's last official act as President was to provide Patty with a Presidential Pardon.
Another bank robbery, this one even more infamous. On February 28, 1997, Larry Phillips, Jr., and Emil Mătăsăreanu entered the North Hollywood branch of the Bank of America at the corner of Laurel Canyon Road and Archwood Street with the intention of robbing it. The bank was surrounded by law enforcement officials when they exited. What followed was more like a Hollywood movie. Some 1,750 rounds and 45 minutes later the siege ended with only the two bank robbers losing their lives.
In 2004 the LAPD set up this display in their museum, using the actual equipment from the event including the fully automatic Noricno Type 56 (AK-47) rifle and the full auto Bushmaster M16
The following gun pictures are no where to be found. If you have a picture of any of these, please send them to me.
Bernhard Goetz, the "subway Vigilante" used a Smith & Wesson model 37 Airweight to shoot 4 muggers on a New York Subway on December 22, 1984
Just 17 days after Squeky Fromme's failed attempt, A devout Marxist & Patty Hearst fanatic named Sara Jane Moore decided to give assassination a try.
On September 22nd, Moore used a .38 Special revolver, firing off just one shot, missing President Ford by an estimated 6 inches. Interestingly She had been picked up by police on an illegal handgun charge the day before the Ford incident, but was released. The police confiscated her .44 caliber revolver and 113 rounds of ammunition. 100% evidence that background checks, waiting periods and other gun control measures DO NOTHING to stop a determined criminal, especially when law enforcement fails to do their job.
On December 7th 1993, Colin Ferguson pulled a Ruger P89 9mm from his back pack and began shooting at people riding the Long Island Rail Road Commuter train. The widow of one of the victims, Carolyn McCarthy, ran for the US House of Representatives on a gun control platform. A subject of which she has no real knowledge. She is famous for her statement regarding "that shoulder thing that goes up"
On November 27th 1978, former San Francisco Board of Supervisor member Dan White used his police issued Smith & Wesson .38 revolver (said to be a model 36) to kill SF Mayor George Moscone and Board member Harvey Milk.
The gun was recorded as having serial # 1J7901, which is wrong because that would put the date of mfg in 1981......
Some say the gun was stolen from the property room where People's Exhibit #40 was stored, others say the gun was destroyed by a city worker in 1983 "or thereabouts" although no official record of the gun being destroyed exists, nor is there any record of the gun being returned to the property room after the court hearings.
In June of 2013, NFL player Aaron Hernandez killed Odin Lloyd in Boston with a .38 Special S&W revolver.....allegedly
On October 9th, 1967 The Marxist, murderer of Latin America: Che Guevara's wicked ways finally caught up with him, actually it was the CIA and Bolivian Operatives who surrounded the troublemaker.
Proving he was a blowhard & a coward of a Commie, he surrendered, asking that his life be spared because "he was worth more to them alive than dead". No Ernesto you were wrong.....he was executed with a U.S. M2 Carbine.
