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INFAMOUS FIREARMS SERIES - The Gun that killed 20 million people
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A quick disclaimer some of the guns depicted in this series are not the actual firearms.
They are however the same models.
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.44 caliber Philadelphia Derringer
On the evening of April 14, 1865, Good Friday, President Abraham Lincoln attended a stage production of “Our American Cousin” at Ford’s Theatre in Washington D.C. Towards the end of the performance, John Wilkes Booth, a slavery advocate and supporter of the Southern cause, entered the presidential box and shot Lincoln in the back of the head at point blank range. The president was pronounced dead the following day.
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Simo Häyhä
was a Finnish military sniper in World War II during the 1939–1940 Winter War against the Soviet Union.
He used a iron sighted Finnish M/28-30, a variant of the Mosin–Nagant rifle.
Häyhä shot an estimated 500 Soviet soldiers with open sights.
He did not use a scope, in the Winter War.
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“Public Enemy No. 1.”
By the summer of 1934, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover named John Dillinger as America’s very first “Public Enemy No. 1.”
Two of Dillinger's actual guns a Colt 1903 hammerless and his Full Auto 1911.
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Bonnie & Clyde
Six well-armed men, including Frank Hamer, ambushed their car on Highway 154 between Gibsland and Sailes in Louisiana.
Hamer was carrying a semi-auto Remington Model 8 rifle. He fired the first shot, which went through the windshield of the couple’s car and hit Clyde in the head.
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