Historic Gun–Model 1910 FN Browning .32 cal. Pistol used to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdina

Historic Gun–Model 1910 FN Browning .32 cal. Pistol used to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand.Gavrillo Princip was a Bosnian nationalist and member of a group of assassins known as “The Black Hand”.  Hired by the Serbian government, on the 28th of June 1914, Princip used this very pistol to kill Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, as well as his wife Sophia, in the streets of Sarajevo.  The assassination shook the world and by summers end the great empires of Europe were embroiled in a conflict known as “The Great War”.  World War I would claim the lives of 17 million people.  It would also destroy ancient European empires and replace them with new nations such as Poland, Czechslovakia, and the Soviet Union.  It would also lead to the rise of fascism and communism, and provide insperation for a German corporal with a tiny mustache to start World War II.Gavrillo Princip died in prison on April 28th, 1918, of tuberculosis.Princips FN Browning can now be found at the Imperial War Museum, UK. -- source link

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