List of assassinations by firearm

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The following is a list of assassinations by firearm detailing the firearms used in the killings of politicians and key social and cultural figures.

YearLocation of attackVictimAttackerWeaponNotes
1536 Flag of England.svg

London, England

Robert Pakington, Member of ParliamentUnknown Wheellock pistol [1] Believed by some to be the first political assassination ever to be performed with a firearm. [2]
1570 Flag of Scotland.svg Linlithgow, Scotland James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, Regent of Scotland James Hamilton of Bothwellhaugh Matchlock carbine [3]
1584 Flag of the Netherlands.svg Delft, Netherlands William the Silent, Prince of Orange Balthasar Gerard Wheellock pistol
1792 Flag of Sweden.svg Stockholm, Sweden Gustav III. King of Sweden Jacob Johan Anckarström Flintlock pistol
1812 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg London, United Kingdom Prime Minister Spencer Perceval John Bellingham Screw-barrel .50 caliber flint-lock pistol [4] The only British prime minister to be assassinated. Bellingham bought a pair of half-inch bore pistols from gunsmith W. Beckwith of Snow Hill, for four guineas. [5]
1830 Flag of Empire of Brazil (1822-1870).svg São Paulo, São Paulo Province, Empire of Brazil Libero Bardaró Disputed Blunderbuss
1859 Flag of the United States.svg

Lake Merced, United States

Senator David C. Broderick David S. Terry .58 caliber pistol [6] Killed in a duel after his pistol failed to fire.
1865 Flag of the United States (1865-1867).svg Washington, D.C., United States President Abraham Lincoln John Wilkes Booth .44 calibre muzzleloading derringer by Henry Deringer
1868 Canadian Red Ensign (1868-1921).svg Ottawa, Canada Thomas D'Arcy McGee MP Patrick J. Whelan .32 rimfire Smith & Wesson Army revolver [7] [8]
1880 Canadian Red Ensign (1868-1921).svg Toronto, Canada George Brown, Premier of Canada West George Bennett (murderer) "Colt revolver" [9]
1881 Flag of the United States (1877-1890).svg Washington, D.C., United States President James A. Garfield Charles Guiteau .44 caliber British bulldog revolver
1882 Flag of the United States (1877-1890).svg Baldwyn, United States W. H. H. Tison, Speaker of the Mississippi House of Representatives J. Edward Sanders"Double-barrel shotgun"Killed in retaliation for an alleged assault by his brother S. H. Tison. [10]
1896 State flag of Persia (1907-1933).svg Tehran, Persia Shah Naser al-Din Shah Qajar of Persia Mirza Reza Kermani Revolver
1897 Flag of Spain (1785-1873, 1875-1931).svg Madrid, Spain Prime Minister Antonio Cánovas del Castillo Michele Angiolillo Revolver
1897 Flag of Brazil.svg Rio de Janeiro, Federal District of Brazil, Brazil Carlos Machado de Bittencourt  [ PT ] Marcelino Bispo de Melo  [ PT ] Garrucha
1900 Flag of Italy (1861-1946).svg Monza, Italy King Umberto I of Italy Gaetano Bresci .32 S&W Iver-Johnson revolver
1901 Flag of the United States (1896-1908).svg Buffalo, United States President William McKinley Leon Czolgosz .32 S&W Iver-Johnson revolverCzolgosz purchased the weapon only three days prior to the assassination, for $4.50 (about $159.00 U.S. dollars in 2023 currency) [11] ) in a hardware store in Buffalo (the site of the attack). Newspaper clippings Czolgosz had collected prior noted that this particular model had been used by anarchist Gaetano Bresci to assassinate King Umberto I of Italy. [12]
1903 Flag of Serbia.svg Belgrade, Serbia King Alexander I of Serbia Mihailo Ristić-Džervinac Revolver
1904 Flag of Russia.svg Helsinki, Grand Duchy of Finland General Nikolay Bobrikov Eugen Schauman FN Browning M1900 [13]
1907 Flag of Bulgaria.svg Sofia, Bulgaria Prime Minister Dimitar Petkov Alexander PetrovPistol
1908 Flag Portugal (1830).svg Lisbon, Portugal King Carlos I of Portugal Manuel Buíça Winchester Model 1907 semi-automatic carbine chambered in .351 WSL Serial number 2137, [14] imported from Germany by Heitor Ferreira. [15]
1908 Flag of Brazil.svg Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil José Plácido de Castro UnknownFirearm
1909 Flag of the Qing Dynasty (1889-1912).svg Harbin, China Resident-General Itō Hirobumi An Jung-geun FN M1900 pistol[ citation needed ]
1909 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg London, United Kingdom Curzon Wyllie Madan Lal Dhingra Revolver.
1913 Flag of Greece (1822-1978).svg Thessaloniki, Greece King George I of Greece Alexandros Schinas Revolver.
1914 Flag of Austria-Hungary (1867-1918).svg Sarajevo, Austria-Hungary Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria Gavrilo Princip FN M1910 .380 ACP pistol [16] A letter dated April 2012 from Thomas Ilming, curator Waffen und Technik, Vienna Military Museum, who holds the actual Belgium made Browning (FN) M1910 semi-auto pistol caliber .380 ACP (9mm Kurz) s/n 19074 used by Princip. This semi-automatic pistol design allows the interchangeable barrels/receiver either 9mm Kurz or 7.65mm which probably creates some confusion as to caliber, some references state .32 ACP (7.65mm). Letter from the Museum in Vienna states emphatically that the caliber of the assassination weapon was 9mm Kurz.
1918 Flag of Portugal.svg Lisbon, Portugal President Sidónio Pais José Júlio da Costa Pistol
1919 Flag of Mexico.svg Ciudad Ayala, Mexico General Emiliano Zapata Jesús Guajardo and subordinatesSeveral riflesGuajardo was an officer in the Mexican Army who, on the orders of General Pablo González Garza, was ordered to pretend to lead his men to defect to Zapata's forces, and then kill Zapata. The assassination was therefore carried out with Guajardo's soldiers' service rifles.
1922 Flag of Germany.svg Berlin, Germany Foreign Minister Walther Rathenau Erwin Kern MP 18 submachine gun
1922 Flag of Poland.svg Warsaw, Poland President Gabriel Narutowicz Eligiusz Niewiadomski Revolver
1923 Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Prague, Czechoslovakia Minister for Finance Alois Rašín Josef ŠoupalPistol
1929 Flag of Brazil.svg Bauru, São Paulo, Brazil José Gomes Duarte  [ PT ] Moacir de Almeida Pistol
1929 Flag of Brazil.svg Rio de Janeiro, Federal District of Brazil, Brazil Manuel Francisco de Sousa Filho  [ PT ] Ildefonso Simões Lopes  [ PT ]Firearm
1930 Flag of Brazil.svg Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil João Pessoa Cavalcânti de Albuquerque João Duarte Dantas Revolver
1932 Flag of France.svg Paris, France President Paul Doumer Paul Gorguloff FN Model 1910
1933 Flag of the United States (1912-1959).svg Miami, United States Anton Cermak, mayor of Chicago, during possible attempted assassination of Franklin D. Roosevelt Giuseppe Zangara .32 S&W revolver by the United States Revolver Company [17] On arriving in Miami, Zangara purchased the revolver for $8 from a pawnshop, along with ten cartridges. [18]
1933 Flag of Peru.svg Lima, Peru President Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro Abelardo de Mendoza Browning semi-automatic pistol [19]
1934 Flag of France.svg Marseille, France King Alexander I of Yugoslavia Vlado Chernozemski Mauser pistol [20]
1934 Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Leningrad, Soviet Union Sergei Kirov Leonid Nikolayev Nagant M1895 revolver
1935 Flag of the United States (1912-1959).svg Baton Rouge, United States Senator Huey Long Carl Weiss FN Model 1910 .32 ACP semi-auto pistol [21]
1938 Flag of Brazil.svg Poço Redondo, Sergipe, Brazil Virgulino Ferreira da Silva "Lampião" UnknownMachine gun
1938 Flag of Brazil.svg Poço Redondo, Sergipe, Brazil Maria Gomes de Oliveira "Maria Bonita" José Panta de Godoy Machine gun
1938 Flag of France.svg Paris, France Ernst vom Rath Herschel Grynszpan 6.35mm five-shot "hammerless" revolver [22] Purchased for 210 francs and a box of 25 bullets for 35 francs. [23]
1940 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg London, United Kingdom Michael O'Dwyer Udham Singh Smith & Wesson Triple Lock revolver [24] Singh had purchased the revolver from a soldier in a pub. [25]
1942 Flag of France.svg Paris, France Admiral François Darlan Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle 7.65mm French "Ruby" pistol [26]
1944 Flag of Egypt (1922-1958).svg Cairo, Egypt Resident Minister Lord Moyne Eliyahu Hakim Nagant revolver [27]
1948 Flag of India.svg New Delhi, India Mahatma Gandhi Nathuram Godse .380 ACP Beretta 1934 pistol
1951 Flag of Pakistan.svg Rawalpindi, Pakistan Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan Said Akbar Babrak Mauser C96
1959 Flag of Sri Lanka.svg Colombo, Ceylon Prime Minister S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike Talduwe Somarama Thero .45 Webley Mark VI revolver
1963 Flag of the United States.svg Dallas, United States President John F. Kennedy Lee Harvey Oswald Italian military rifle, 6.5mm Carcano Model 91/38
1964 Flag of Brazil.svg Ceres, Goiás, Brazil Adib Shishakli Nawaf Ghazaleh Pistol
1965 Flag of the United States.svg New York City, United States Malcolm X Talmadge Hayer, William 25X Bradley, and othersone sawed off shotgun, M1911A1 and another semi automatic handgun
1968 Flag of the United States.svg Memphis, United States Martin Luther King Jr. James Earl Ray Remington 760 Gamemaster chambered in .30-06 Springfield Ray initially purchased an identical model in .243 Winchester, but returned it as too weak for his purposes. [28]
1968 Flag of the United States.svg Los Angeles, United States Senator Robert F. Kennedy Sirhan Sirhan Eight-shot Iver Johnson .22 calibre Cadet 55-A revolverSerial number H-53725, Trial-People's Exhibit #6, misidentified in trial testimony as S/N H-18602
1969 Flag of Somalia.svg Las Anod, Somalia President Abdirashid Ali Shermarke Bodyguard"Automatic rifle" [29]
1975 Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg Riyadh, Saudi Arabia King Faisal of Saudi Arabia Faisal bin Musaid Revolver [30]
1978 Flag of the United States.svg San Francisco, United States George Moscone and Harvey Milk Dan White .38 Special S&W Chiefs Special snub-nosed revolver [31] White, a former policeman, wielded the revolver he used to carry on the job. [32]
1979 Flag of South Korea (1949-1984).svg Seoul, South Korea President Park Chung-hee Kim Jae-gyu Walther PPK .32 ACP and Smith & Wesson Model 36 .38 Special [33] After his Walther PPK jammed, Kim retrieved a .38 revolver from his subordinate to kill Park.
1980 Flag of the United States.svg New York City, United States John Lennon Mark Chapman .38 Special Charter Arms snubnosed revolverPurchased at J&S Sales in Honolulu, Hawaii for $169 [34]
1981 Flag of Egypt (1972-1984).svg Cairo, Egypt President Anwar El Sadat Khalid Islambouli and co-conspiratorsEgyptian-issue AK-47 riflesOne of the guns used in the killing had "In the name of Allah the avenger" inscribed on its barrel. [35]
1983 Flag of the Philippines.svg Manila, Philippines Benigno Aquino Jr. DisputedSmith & Wesson .357 Magnum revolverIt was reported that the manufacturer had shipped the pistol to the Thai National Trading Co. in Bangkok on September 25, 1970.
1984 Flag of the United States.svg Denver, United States Alan Berg Members of the white nationalist group The Order Ingram MAC-10 pistol [36] The gun was illegally converted from semi to fully automatic [37]
1984 Flag of India.svg New Delhi, India Prime Minister Indira Gandhi Bodyguards Satwant Singh and Beant Singh .38 Special service revolver, 9mm SAF carbine (Indian-produced Sterling submachine gun) [38] Beant fired five shots from his service revolver, and Satwant followed with 25 shots of the carbine. [39]
1986 Flag of Sweden.svg Stockholm, Sweden Prime Minister Olof Palme Unknown .357 Magnum revolverThe shooter was never identified.
1988 Flag of Brazil.svg Xapuri, Acre, Brazil Francisco Alves "Chico" Mendes Filho Darci Alves da Silva Firearm
1992 Flag of Brazil.svg São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil Governor Edmundo Pinto UnknownFirearm
1992 Flag of Algeria.svg Annaba, Algeria President-elect Mohamed Boudiaf Lambarek Boumaarafi Submachine gun
1993 Flag of South Africa (1928-1982).svg Boksburg, South Africa Chris Hani Janusz Waluś Z-88 9mm pistol
1994 Flag of Mexico.svg Tijuana, Mexico Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta Mario Aburto Martínez (disputed).38 Taurus Model 85 revolverColosio was gunned down after a campaign speech rally in the Lomas Tairinas neighborhood of Tijuana. Police and government officials put Aburto as the main shooter but the latter claims others were involved but were never questioned.
1995 Flag of the United States.svg Corpus Christi, Texas, United States Selena Quintanilla-Pérez Yolanda Saldívar .38 Taurus Model 85 revolver
1995 Flag of Israel.svg Tel Aviv, Israel Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin Yigal Amir Beretta 84F semi-automatic pistol
1996 Flag of Brazil.svg Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil Paulo César Farias UnknownRevolver
1999 Flag of Armenia.svg Yerevan, Armenia Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan Nairi Hunanyan and co-conspirators Kalashnikov AK-47 rifle
2000 Flag of Greece.svg Athens, Greece Brigadier Stephen Saunders Members of the Marxist group 17 November .45 Colt M1911 pistol
2001 Flag of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.svg Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo President Laurent-Désiré Kabila Rashidi MizeleRevolver
2001 Flag of Brazil.svg Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil Antonio da Costa Santos UnknownFirearm
2001 Flag of Brazil.svg Governador Dix-Sept Rosado, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil Aguinaldo Pereira da Silva Disputed ArmaLite AR-15
2002 Flag of Brazil.svg Juquitiba, São Paulo, Brazil Celso Daniel UnknownFirearm
2002 Flag of the Netherlands.svg Hilversum, Netherlands Pim Fortuyn Volkert van der Graaf Star Firestar semi-automatic pistol
2003 Flag of Yugoslavia (1992-2003); Flag of Serbia and Montenegro (2003-2006).svg Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić Zvezdan Jovanović Heckler & Koch G3 rifleFired from a window 180m away. [40]
2004 Flag of the Netherlands.svg Amsterdam, Netherlands Theo van Gogh Mohammed Bouyeri HS2000 semi-automatic pistol [41]
2004 Flag of the United States.svg Columbus, Ohio, United States "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott Nathan Gale Beretta 92FS pistol
2005 Flag of Brazil.svg Anapu, Pará, Brazil Dorothy Stang Raifran das Neves Sales Firearm
2009 Flag of the United Arab Emirates.svg Dubai, United Arab Emirates Sulim Yamadayev Unknown Makarov pistol The gold-plated pistol was left at the scene. [42]
2010 Flag of Brazil.svg Jandira, São Paulo, Brazil Walderi Braz Paschoalin  [ PT ]Unknown AK-47
2011 Flag of the Philippines.svg

Caloocan, Philippines

Reynaldo Dagsa Arnel Buenaflor9mm pistolThe pistol was sold back to the dealer the day after the murder. [43]
2012 Flag of Puerto Rico.svg Bayamon, Puerto Rico Hector "Macho" Camacho Five people have been arrested and accused of his murder [44] Firearm
2015 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Belfast, United Kingdom Gerard "Jock" Davison Unknown Makarov pistol The PSNI reported that the use of a Makarov was "unusual" [45]
2016 Flag of the United States.svg Orlando, Florida, United States Christina Grimmie Kevin Loibl Glock 19 Gen 4 9mm pistol
2016 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg

Birstall, United Kingdom

Jo Cox Thomas Mair Weihrauch .22 shotgun [46]
2016 Flag of Brazil.svg Itumbiara, Goiás, Brazil José Gomes da Rocha Gilberto Ferreira do Amaral Pistol
2016 Flag of Turkey.svg Ankara, Turkey Andrei Karlov Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş Canik 55 TP9 handgunAltıntaş was an off duty police officer and used his service weapon in the attack.
2018 Flag of Brazil.svg Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Marielle Franco Ronald Paulo Alves Pereira and Adriano Magalhães da Nóbrega Heckler & Koch MP5
2018 Flag of Brazil.svg Vitória, Espírito Santo, Brazil Gerson Camata Marcos Vinícius Moreira Andrade Firearm [47]
2019 Flag of Puerto Rico.svg Gurabo, Puerto Rico Jose Garcia Cosme UnknownFirearm
2019 Flag of Brazil.svg Araribóia Indigenous Territory, Maranhão, Brazil Paulo Paulino Guajajara Illegal loggersFirearm
2022 Flag of Japan.svg Nara, Nara Prefecture, Japan Shinzo Abe Tetsuya Yamagami Improvised firearm
2023 Flag of Ecuador.svg Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador Fernando Villavicencio Colombian hitmen [48] 9mm pistol
2023 Flag of Brazil.svg Simões Filho, Bahia, Brazil Mãe Bernadete UnknownFirearm [49]

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