Famous guns: Weapons used in assassinations or high profile shootings

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Posted: 7/20/2008 6:48:19 PM EDT

Anyone know the firearms that were used in famous crimes?

I'm curious what James Earl Ray used to assassinate MLK.

Here I'll start:

The hillside strangler used a Dan Wesson 357mag...it can be currently found on gunbroker for sale..or it was there last week for sure

ETA: Found it
Hillside Strangler's gun

Posted: 7/20/2008 6:49:54 PM EDT

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Posted: 7/20/2008 6:58:36 PM EDT

[#2]

Quoted:
Anyone know the firearms that were used in famous crimes?

I'm curious what James Earl Ray used to assassinate MLK.

Remington 760 in 30-06.

Posted: 7/20/2008 6:58:39 PM EDT

[#3]

James Earl Ray used a Remington Model 760 pump action with a Redfield 2-7x scope in .30-06.

Posted: 7/20/2008 7:01:02 PM EDT

[#4]

Mannlicher-Carcano used by Oswald in the Kennedy Assassination.

Posted: 7/20/2008 7:01:47 PM EDT

[#5]

Who knows what this is?

Posted: 7/20/2008 7:02:24 PM EDT

[#6]

Quoted:
Who knows what this is?

www.celtictexas.com/IMG_6595w.jpg

Jack Ruby?

Posted: 7/20/2008 7:02:50 PM EDT

[#7]

Quoted:
Anyone know the firearms that were used in famous crimes?

I'm curious what James Earl Ray used to assassinate MLK.

Here I'll start:

The hillside strangler used a Dan Wesson 357mag...it can be currently found on gunbroker for sale..or it was there last week for sure

ETA: Found it
Hillside Strangler's gun

Mmmmmm that Dan Wesson looks nice. I love me a DW 15-2 esp. w/the 4" barrel. Too bad that one is so expensive

Posted: 7/20/2008 7:03:05 PM EDT

[#8]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Who knows what this is?

www.celtictexas.com/IMG_6595w.jpg

Jack Ruby?

Thats what I think too.

Posted: 7/20/2008 7:03:12 PM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:
Who knows what this is?

www.celtictexas.com/IMG_6595w.jpg

the colt Ruby used?

Posted: 7/20/2008 7:03:38 PM EDT

[#10]

Colt cobra used to shoot Lee Harvey O swald

Posted: 7/20/2008 7:03:57 PM EDT

[#11]

That would be a bizarre collection concept: Examples of the same types of weapons used to knock off prominent political figures through history.

Rather macabre.

The Kennedy assassination rifle:

An Assassination Rifle - the Fucile M 91/38 "C 2766"

For most American readers, the M 91/38 short rifle with the serial number C2766, produced in 1940 in the Terni Arsenal, and chambered for the 6.5x52 Carcano, would be the most famous Carcano, since it was supposedly used by Lee Harvey Oswald to assassinate President John F. Kennedy. Of special notice are the cheap Japanese made side-mounted 4x18 scope (imported by Ordnance Optics Inc., Hollywood, California, and installed by the mail-order distributor of the rifle, Klein's Sporting Goods) and the inappropriate sling (which originally belonged to a pistol shoulder holster, as many years later was found out).

CJ

Posted: 7/20/2008 7:04:52 PM EDT

[#12]

Who knows what this is?

i would say Reagan, however he wasn't assassinated.

Posted: 7/20/2008 7:05:15 PM EDT

[#13]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Who knows what this is?

www.celtictexas.com/IMG_6595w.jpg

Jack Ruby?

correct. Actually I think Ruby's had a thinner barrel. But that's what google came back with.

Posted: 7/20/2008 7:06:14 PM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:
Anyone know the firearms that were used in famous crimes?

I'm curious what James Earl Ray used to assassinate MLK.

Here I'll start:

The hillside strangler used a Dan Wesson 357mag...it can be currently found on gunbroker for sale..or it was there last week for sure

ETA: Found it
Hillside Strangler's gun

theres more and more evidence that points to JER not shooting mlk. most of his supporters include mlk's own family

Posted: 7/20/2008 7:06:25 PM EDT

[#15]

Quoted:

Who knows what this is?

i would say Reagan, however he wasn't assassinated.

He used a 22 revolver I think.

Cylinder and barrel just aren't right for that.

Röhm RG-14 .22 cal

Posted: 7/20/2008 7:07:16 PM EDT

[#16]

Who knows this one

Posted: 7/20/2008 7:07:37 PM EDT

[#17]

Just today in another thread we got to talking about the handgun that "Tex" Watson used in the Manson murders.

It was a Colt Buntline Special.

David Berkowitz (the "Son of Sam") used a Charter Arms Bulldog .44 revolver.

Posted: 7/20/2008 7:08:04 PM EDT

[#18]

Quoted:
Anyone know the firearms that were used in famous crimes?

I'm curious what James Earl Ray used to assassinate MLK.

Here I'll start:

The hillside strangler used a Dan Wesson 357mag...it can be currently found on gunbroker for sale..or it was there last week for sure

ETA: Found it
Hillside Strangler's gun

Creepiest. Gun auction. Ever.

Posted: 7/20/2008 7:08:40 PM EDT

[#19]

David's weapon in David vs Goliath.

Posted: 7/20/2008 7:12:22 PM EDT

[#20]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Anyone know the firearms that were used in famous crimes?

I'm curious what James Earl Ray used to assassinate MLK.

Here I'll start:

The hillside strangler used a Dan Wesson 357mag...it can be currently found on gunbroker for sale..or it was there last week for sure

ETA: Found it
Hillside Strangler's gun

Creepiest. Gun auction. Ever.

+1. And I don't know who the hell in their right mind would want this. Bianchi was an animal. He raped and tortured women and girls (if I recall correctly) as young as 12.

That gun should have gone to the blast furnace, AFTER they put Bianchi in it first.

Posted: 7/20/2008 7:12:31 PM EDT

[#21]

Browning M1910, .380

Used to take out Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austrian empire, and his wife in Sarajevo, 1914. It started a war, or something.

- BG

Posted: 7/20/2008 7:14:23 PM EDT

[#22]

Quoted:

Who knows what this is?

i would say Reagan, however he wasn't assassinated.

That was ~~an H&R~~ Rhom .22 revolver.

Posted: 7/20/2008 7:14:59 PM EDT

[#23]

Quoted:
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/38/Steripicupload.jpg/300px-Steripicupload.jpg

Who knows this one

Jesse James?

When the Soviets killed the Tsar, IIRC, it was Nagant revolvers & C-96's.

Posted: 7/20/2008 7:15:09 PM EDT

[#24]

One of the most famous pistols would be the one that Hitler used to shoot himself in the Bunker. Not technically an assassination, but would be real valuable nontheless. The actual model is unknown, but believed to be either a Walther PP or PPK. Most likely a PPK as it was Hitler's personal pistol. Suposedly one of the people from the Bunker picked it up and carried it away and later tossed it somewhere in the heavily destroyed Berlin.

Posted: 7/20/2008 7:15:39 PM EDT

[#25]

Quoted:
i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee8/Triumph955i/pistol1b.jpg

John Wilkes Booth used it on Lincoln?

Posted: 7/20/2008 7:17:18 PM EDT

[#26]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Who knows what this is?

www.celtictexas.com/IMG_6595w.jpg

Jack Ruby?

Thats what I think too.

i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee8/Triumph955i/jack-ruby-shoots-oswald.jpg

Posted: 7/20/2008 7:18:01 PM EDT

[#27]

What did Sirhan Sirhan use to kill RFK with?

Wasn't it a .22 pistol?

Posted: 7/20/2008 7:18:30 PM EDT

[#28]

Quoted:
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/38/Steripicupload.jpg/300px-Steripicupload.jpg

Who knows this one

Well its a S&W No# 3. Billy the Kid? John Wesley Hardin?

Posted: 7/20/2008 7:18:41 PM EDT

[#29]

Quoted:
What did Sirhan Sirhan use to kill RFK with?

Wasn't it a .22 pistol?

Iver Johnson .22 Cadet

Posted: 7/20/2008 7:18:59 PM EDT

[#30]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Who knows what this is?

www.celtictexas.com/IMG_6595w.jpg

Jack Ruby?

Thats what I think too.

i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee8/Triumph955i/jack-ruby-shoots-oswald.jpg

img149.imageshack.us/img149/9681/oswaldko1.jpg

That pic always cracks me up.

Posted: 7/20/2008 7:19:29 PM EDT

[#31]

Quoted:

Quoted:
i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee8/Triumph955i/pistol1b.jpg

John Wilkes Booth used it on Lincoln?

Thats the one.

Posted: 7/20/2008 7:24:36 PM EDT

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Posted: 7/20/2008 7:28:59 PM EDT

[#33]

I always like this one from the reagan attempt

SS isn't fucking around, GET SOME!!!!!!

Posted: 7/20/2008 7:29:40 PM EDT

[#34]

Quoted:

Quoted:
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/38/Steripicupload.jpg/300px-Steripicupload.jpg

Who knows this one

Well its a S&W No# 3. Billy the Kid? John Wesley Hardin?

Led to one of our greatest presidents. Its actually an Iver Johnson copy of the S&W

Posted: 7/20/2008 7:33:33 PM EDT

[#35]

Quoted:

Quoted:
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/38/Steripicupload.jpg/300px-Steripicupload.jpg

Who knows this one

Well its a S&W No# 3. Billy the Kid? John Wesley Hardin?

Led to one of our greatest presidents. Its actually an Iver Johnson copy of the S&W

Attempt on Teddy Roosevelt?

Posted: 7/20/2008 7:34:22 PM EDT

[#36]

Quoted:

Quoted:
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/38/Steripicupload.jpg/300px-Steripicupload.jpg

Who knows this one

Well its a S&W No# 3. Billy the Kid? John Wesley Hardin?

Led to one of our greatest presidents. Its actually an Iver Johnson copy of the S&W

Attempt on Teddy Roosevelt?

McKinley

Posted: 7/20/2008 7:36:35 PM EDT

[#37]

I don't agree that the Hillside Strangler's Dan Wesson should be melted down or destroyed.

I see it as just a gun that happened to be owned by a nutcase, but wasn't used in any crimes he committed.

To me, its market value is exactly what a Dan Wesson .357 of that type and condition is normally worth. I would buy it for that much, and sell it for that much, not more.

It's a "BFD" gun to me. (Big Freaking Deal.

)

CJ

Posted: 7/20/2008 7:42:55 PM EDT

[#38]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Who knows what this is?

www.celtictexas.com/IMG_6595w.jpg

Jack Ruby?

correct. Actually I think Ruby's had a thinner barrel. But that's what google came back with.

Yes, the Cobra barrel didn't cover the ejector like that until 1972.

This photo shows that Ruby's also had the optional hammer shroud.

Here's a clearer picture of it

Posted: 7/20/2008 7:47:46 PM EDT

[#39]

Quoted:
That would be a bizarre collection concept: Examples of the same types of weapons used to knock off prominent political figures through history.

Rather macabre.

The Kennedy assassination rifle:

An Assassination Rifle - the Fucile M 91/38 "C 2766"

personal.stevens.edu/~gliberat/carcano/images/wc1303.gif

For most American readers, the M 91/38 short rifle with the serial number C2766, produced in 1940 in the Terni Arsenal, and chambered for the 6.5x52 Carcano, would be the most famous Carcano, since it was supposedly used by Lee Harvey Oswald to assassinate President John F. Kennedy. Of special notice are the cheap Japanese made side-mounted 4x18 scope (imported by Ordnance Optics Inc., Hollywood, California, and installed by the mail-order distributor of the rifle, Klein's Sporting Goods) and the inappropriate sling (which originally belonged to a pistol shoulder holster, as many years later was found out).

I still have a problem with Oswald hitting Kennedy with that piece of crap rifle.
That was some miraculous shooting.

CJ

Posted: 7/20/2008 7:47:50 PM EDT

[#40]

Quoted:
I don't agree that the Hillside Strangler's Dan Wesson should be melted down or destroyed.

I see it as just a gun that happened to be owned by a nutcase, but wasn't used in any crimes he committed.

To me, its market value is exactly what a Dan Wesson .357 of that type and condition is normally worth. I would buy it for that much, and sell it for that much, not more.

It's a "BFD" gun to me. (Big Freaking Deal.

)

CJ

I don't agree that it should be destroyed either.

Might as well destroy an arfcom members John Wayne Gacy paintings because they were created by a sick murderer.

For that matter, lets melt every firearm posted in this thread.

Destroying the objects that belonged to a murderer doesn't help anything. Just makes people feel better about themselves.

How righteous.

Posted: 7/20/2008 7:51:50 PM EDT

[#41]

Quoted:

Quoted:
I don't agree that the Hillside Strangler's Dan Wesson should be melted down or destroyed.

I see it as just a gun that happened to be owned by a nutcase, but wasn't used in any crimes he committed.

To me, its market value is exactly what a Dan Wesson .357 of that type and condition is normally worth. I would buy it for that much, and sell it for that much, not more.

It's a "BFD" gun to me. (Big Freaking Deal.

)

CJ

I don't agree that it should be destroyed either.

Might as well destroy an arfcom members John Wayne Gacy paintings because they were created by a sick murderer.

For that matter, lets melt every firearm posted in this thread.

Destroying the objects that belonged to a murderer doesn't help anything. Just makes people feel better about themselves.

How righteous.

It would certainly make me feel better destroying weapons owned by someone who raped and murdered children, rather than seeing them being offered for sale at an asking price of $89,000 like they are some kind of "valuable souvenirs."

If you would enjoy collecting that kind of stuff, I guess that's your business.

Posted: 7/20/2008 7:54:07 PM EDT

[#42]

Quoted:
world.guns.ru/handguns/browning_1910.jpg

Browning M1910, .380

Used to take out Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austrian empire, and his wife in Sarajevo, 1914. It started a war, or something.

- BG

It did start a war however it took 3 trys to do it. The gun misfired 2 times. The duke's driver took a wrong turn and they met the assasin walking away from the parade route.
Bang the duke was shot. Unfortunately according to medical historyians the duke could have survived but the driver took the longest route to the hospital because he did not know the city.

Posted: 7/20/2008 7:59:24 PM EDT

[#43]

Not assassin guns, but they are famous:

Posted: 7/20/2008 7:59:48 PM EDT

[#44]

Quoted:

Quoted:
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/38/Steripicupload.jpg/300px-Steripicupload.jpg

Who knows this one

Well its a S&W No# 3. Billy the Kid? John Wesley Hardin?

Led to one of our greatest presidents. Its actually an Iver Johnson copy of the S&W

Attempt on Teddy Roosevelt?

McKinley

Teddy was never shot while President, Mckinley, Regan, and Bobby Kennedy were all shot with 22lr. Regan and Booby with 22lr revolvers made by Iver Johnson, McKinley I don't know.