# List of assassinations by firearm

The following is a list of assassinations by firearm detailing the firearms used in the killings of politicians and key social and cultural figures.
| Year | Location of attack | Victim | Attacker | Weapon | Notes |
| 1536 | London, England | Robert Pakington, Member of Parliament | Unknown | Wheellock pistol | Believed by some to be the first political assassination ever to be performed with a firearm. |
| 1570 | Linlithgow, Scotland | James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, Regent of Scotland | James Hamilton of Bothwellhaugh | Matchlock carbine | |
| 1584 | Delft, Netherlands | William the Silent, Prince of Orange | Balthasar Gerard | Wheellock pistol | |
| 1792 | Stockholm, Sweden | Gustav III. King of Sweden | Jacob Johan Anckarström | Flintlock pistol | |
| 1812 | London, United Kingdom | Prime Minister Spencer Perceval | John Bellingham | Screw-barrel .50 caliber flint-lock pistol | 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. |
| 1830 | São Paulo, São Paulo Province, Empire of Brazil | Libero Bardaró | Disputed | Blunderbuss | |
| 1859 | Lake Merced, United States | Senator David C. Broderick | David S. Terry | .58 caliber pistol | Killed in a duel after his pistol failed to fire. |
| 1865 | Washington, D.C., United States | President Abraham Lincoln | John Wilkes Booth | .44 calibre muzzleloading derringer by Henry Deringer | |
| 1868 | Ottawa, Canada | Thomas D'Arcy McGee | MP Patrick J. Whelan | .32 rimfire Smith & Wesson Army revolver | |
| 1880 | Toronto, Canada | George Brown, Premier of Canada West | George Bennett (murderer) | "Colt revolver" | |
| 1881 | Washington, D.C., United States | President James A. Garfield | Charles Guiteau | .44 caliber British bulldog revolver | |
| 1882 | 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. |
| 1896 | Tehran, Persia | Shah Naser al-Din Shah Qajar of Persia | Mirza Reza Kermani | Revolver | |
| 1897 | Madrid, Spain | Prime Minister Antonio Cánovas del Castillo | Michele Angiolillo | 11.17mm Webley British Bulldog revolver | |
| 1897 | Rio de Janeiro, Federal District of Brazil, Brazil | Carlos Machado de Bittencourt [PT] | Marcelino Bispo de Melo [PT] | Garrucha | |
| 1900 | Monza, Italy | King Umberto I of Italy | Gaetano Bresci | .32 S&W Iver-Johnson revolver | |
| 1901 | Buffalo, United States | President William McKinley | Leon Czolgosz | .32 S&W Iver-Johnson revolver | Czolgosz purchased the weapon only three days prior to the assassination, for $4.50 (about $159.00 U.S. dollars in 2023 currency)) 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. |
| 1903 | Belgrade, Serbia | King Alexander I of Serbia | Mihailo Ristić-Džervinac | Revolver | |
| 1904 | Helsinki, Grand Duchy of Finland | General Nikolay Bobrikov | Eugen Schauman | FN Browning M1900 | |
| 1907 | Sofia, Bulgaria | Prime Minister Dimitar Petkov | Alexander Petrov | Pistol | |
| 1908 | Lisbon, Portugal | King Carlos I of Portugal | Manuel Buíça | Winchester Model 1907 semi-automatic carbine chambered in .351 WSL | Serial number 2137, imported from Germany by Heitor Ferreira. |
| 1908 | Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil | José Plácido de Castro | Unknown | Firearm | |
| 1909 | London, United Kingdom | Curzon Wyllie | Madan Lal Dhingra | Colt revolver | |
| 1909 | Harbin, China | Resident-General Itō Hirobumi | An Jung-geun | FN M1900 pistol | |
| 1913 | Thessaloniki, Greece | King George I of Greece | Alexandros Schinas | Revolver. | |
| 1914 | Sarajevo, Austria-Hungary | Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria | Gavrilo Princip | FN M1910 .380 ACP pistol | 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 | Lisbon, Portugal | President Sidónio Pais | José Júlio da Costa | Pistol | |
| 1919 | Ciudad Ayala, Mexico | General Emiliano Zapata | Jesús Guajardo and subordinates | Several rifles | Guajardo 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 | Berlin, Germany | Foreign Minister Walther Rathenau | Erwin Kern | MP 18 submachine gun | |
| 1922 | Warsaw, Poland | President Gabriel Narutowicz | Eligiusz Niewiadomski | Revolver | |
| 1923 | Prague, Czechoslovakia | Minister for Finance Alois Rašín | Josef Šoupal | Pistol |
| 1929 | Bauru, São Paulo, Brazil | José Gomes Duarte [PT] | Moacir de Almeida | Pistol | |
| 1929 | Rio de Janeiro, Federal District of Brazil, Brazil | Manuel Francisco de Sousa Filho [PT] | Ildefonso Simões Lopes [PT] | Firearm | |
| 1930 | Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil | João Pessoa Cavalcânti de Albuquerque | João Duarte Dantas | Revolver | |
| 1932 | Paris, France | President Paul Doumer | Paul Gorguloff | FN Model 1910 | |
| 1933 | 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 | On arriving in Miami, Zangara purchased the revolver for $8 from a pawnshop, along with ten cartridges. |
| 1933 | Lima, Peru | President Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro | Abelardo de Mendoza | Browning semi-automatic pistol | |
| 1934 | Vienna, Austria | Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss | Otto Planetta | Firearm | |
| 1934 | Marseille, France | King Alexander I of Yugoslavia | Vlado Chernozemski | Mauser pistol | |
| 1934 | Leningrad, Soviet Union | Sergei Kirov | Leonid Nikolayev | Nagant M1895 revolver | |
| 1935 | Baton Rouge, United States | Senator Huey Long | Carl Weiss | FN Model 1910 .32 ACP semi-auto pistol | |
| 1938 | Poço Redondo, Sergipe, Brazil | Virgulino Ferreira da Silva "Lampião" | Unknown | Bergmann MP-35 submachine gun | |
| 1938 | Poço Redondo, Sergipe, Brazil | Maria Gomes de Oliveira "Maria Bonita" | José Panta de Godoy | Bergmann MP-35 submachine gun | |
| 1938 | Paris, France | Ernst vom Rath | Herschel Grynszpan | 6.35mm five-shot "hammerless" revolver | Purchased for 210 francs and a box of 25 bullets for 35 francs. |
| 1940 | London, United Kingdom | Michael O'Dwyer | Udham Singh | Smith & Wesson Triple Lock revolver | Singh had purchased the revolver from a soldier in a pub. |
| 1942 | Paris, France | Admiral François Darlan | Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle | 7.65mm French "Ruby" pistol | |
| 1944 | Cairo, Egypt | Resident Minister Lord Moyne | Eliyahu Hakim | Nagant revolver | |
| 1948 | New Delhi, India | Mahatma Gandhi | Nathuram Godse | .380 ACP Beretta 1934 pistol | |
| 1951 | East Jerusalem, West Bank | King Abdullah I of Jordan | Mustafa Shukri Ashu | Revolver | |
| 1951 | Rawalpindi, Pakistan | Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan | Said Akbar Babrak | Mauser C96 | |
| 1959 | Colombo, Ceylon | Prime Minister S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike | Talduwe Somarama Thero | .45 Webley Mark VI revolver | |
| 1963 | Dallas, United States | President John F. Kennedy | Lee Harvey Oswald | Italian military rifle, 6.5mm Carcano Model 91/38 | |
| 1964 | Ceres, Goiás, Brazil | Adib Shishakli | Nawaf Ghazaleh | Pistol |
| 1965 | New York City, United States | Malcolm X | Talmadge Hayer, William 25X Bradley, and others | one sawed off shotgun, M1911A1 and another semi automatic handgun | |
| 1968 | 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. |
| 1968 | Los Angeles, United States | Senator Robert F. Kennedy | Sirhan Sirhan | Eight-shot Iver Johnson .22 calibre Cadet 55-A revolver | Serial number H-53725, Trial-People's Exhibit #6, misidentified in trial testimony as S/N H-18602 |
| 1969 | Las Anod, Somalia | President Abdirashid Ali Shermarke | Bodyguard | "Automatic rifle" | |
| 1975 | Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | King Faisal of Saudi Arabia | Faisal bin Musaid | Revolver | |
| 1978 | San Francisco, United States | George Moscone and Harvey Milk | Dan White | .38 Special S&W Chiefs Special snub-nosed revolver | White, a former policeman, wielded the revolver he used to carry on the job. |
| 1979 | Seoul, South Korea | President Park Chung-hee | Kim Jae-gyu | Walther PPK .32 ACP and Smith & Wesson Model 36 .38 Special | After his Walther PPK jammed, Kim retrieved a .38 revolver from his subordinate to kill Park. |
| 1980 | New York City, United States | John Lennon | Mark Chapman | .38 Special Charter Arms snubnosed revolver | Purchased at J&S Sales in Honolulu, Hawaii for $169 |
| 1981 | Cairo, Egypt | President Anwar El Sadat | Khalid Islambouli and co-conspirators | Egyptian-issue AK-47 rifles | One of the guns used in the killing had "In the name of Allah the avenger" inscribed on its barrel. |
| 1983 | Manila, Philippines | Benigno Aquino Jr. | Disputed | Smith & Wesson .357 Magnum revolver | It was reported that the manufacturer had shipped the pistol to the Thai National Trading Co. in Bangkok on September 25, 1970. |
| 1984 | Denver, United States | Alan Berg | Members of the white nationalist group The Order | Ingram MAC-10 pistol | The gun was illegally converted from semi to fully automatic |
| 1984 | 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) | Beant fired five shots from his service revolver, and Satwant followed with 25 shots of the carbine. |
| 1986 | Stockholm, Sweden | Prime Minister Olof Palme | Unknown | .357 Magnum revolver | The shooter was never identified. |
| 1986 | Imperatriz, Maranhão, Brazil | Josimo Morais Tavares | Geraldo Rodrigues da Costa | Firearm | |
| 1988 | Xapuri, Acre, Brazil | Francisco Alves "Chico" Mendes Filho | Darci Alves da Silva | 20-gauge shotgun (maker and model unknown) | |
| 1992 | São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil | Governor Edmundo Pinto | Unknown | Firearm | |
| 1992 | Annaba, Algeria | President-elect Mohamed Boudiaf | Lambarek Boumaarafi | Submachine gun | |
| 1993 | Boksburg, South Africa | Chris Hani | Janusz Waluś | Z-88 9mm pistol | |
| 1994 | Tijuana, Mexico | Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta | Mario Aburto Martínez (disputed) | .38 Taurus Model 85 revolver | Colosio 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 | Corpus Christi, Texas, United States | Selena Quintanilla-Pérez | Yolanda Saldívar | .38 Taurus Model 85 revolver | |
| 1995 | Tel Aviv, Israel | Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin | Yigal Amir | Beretta 84F semi-automatic pistol | |
| 1996 | Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil | Paulo César Farias | Unknown | Rossi model 874 .38 Special revolver | |
| 1999 | Yerevan, Armenia | Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan | Nairi Hunanyan and co-conspirators | Kalashnikov AK-47 rifle | |
| 2000 | Athens, Greece | Brigadier Stephen Saunders | Members of the Marxist group 17 November | .45 Colt M1911 pistol | |
| 2001 | Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo | President Laurent-Désiré Kabila | Rashidi Mizele | Revolver | |
| 2001 | Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil | Antonio da Costa Santos | Unknown | Firearm | |
| 2001 | Governador Dix-Sept Rosado, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil | Aguinaldo Pereira da Silva | Disputed | ArmaLite AR-15 | |
| 2002 | Juquitiba, São Paulo, Brazil | Celso Daniel | Unknown | Firearm | |
| 2002 | Hilversum, Netherlands | Pim Fortuyn | Volkert van der Graaf | Star Firestar semi-automatic pistol | |
| 2003 | Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro | Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić | Zvezdan Jovanović | Heckler & Koch G3 rifle | Fired from a window 180m away. |
| 2004 | Amsterdam, Netherlands | Theo van Gogh | Mohammed Bouyeri | HS2000 semi-automatic pistol |
| 2004 | Columbus, Ohio, United States | "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott | Nathan Gale | Beretta 92FS pistol | |
| 2005 | Anapu, Pará, Brazil | Dorothy Stang | Raifran das Neves Sales | Firearm | |
| 2009 | Dubai, United Arab Emirates | Sulim Yamadayev | Unknown | Makarov pistol | The gold-plated pistol was left at the scene. |
| 2010 | Jandira, São Paulo, Brazil | Walderi Braz Paschoalin [PT] | Unknown | AK-47 | |
| 2011 | Caloocan, Philippines | Reynaldo Dagsa | Arnel Buenaflor | 9mm pistol | The pistol was sold back to the dealer the day after the murder. |
| 2012 | Bayamon, Puerto Rico | Hector "Macho" Camacho | Five people have been arrested and accused of his murder | Firearm |
| 2015 | Belfast, United Kingdom | Gerard "Jock" Davison | Unknown | Makarov pistol | The PSNI reported that the use of a Makarov was "unusual" |
| 2016 | Orlando, Florida, United States | Christina Grimmie | Kevin Loibl | Glock 19 Gen 4 9mm pistol | |
| 2016 | Birstall, United Kingdom | Jo Cox | Thomas Mair | Weihrauch .22 shotgun | |
| 2016 | Itumbiara, Goiás, Brazil | José Gomes da Rocha | Gilberto Ferreira do Amaral | Pistol | |
| 2016 | Ankara, Turkey | Andrei Karlov | Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş | Canik 55 TP9 handgun | Altıntaş was an off duty police officer and used his service weapon in the attack. |
| 2018 | Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | Marielle Franco | Ronald Paulo Alves Pereira and Adriano Magalhães da Nóbrega | Heckler & Koch MP5 | |
| 2018 | Vitória, Espírito Santo, Brazil | Gerson Camata | Marcos Vinícius Moreira Andrade | Firearm | |
| 2019 | Gurabo, Puerto Rico | Jose Garcia Cosme | Unknown | Firearm |
| 2019 | Araribóia Indigenous Territory, Maranhão, Brazil | Paulo Paulino Guajajara | Illegal loggers | Firearm |
| 2022 | Nara, Nara Prefecture, Japan | Shinzo Abe | Tetsuya Yamagami | Improvised firearm | |
| 2023 | Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador | Fernando Villavicencio | Colombian hitmen | 9mm pistol | |
| 2023 | Simões Filho, Bahia, Brazil | Mãe Bernadete | Unknown | Firearm | |
| 2024 | New York City, New York, United States | Brian Thompson | Luigi Mangione (suspect) | Glock 19 with 3D printed suppressor | |