8. The Browning FN Model 1910 was the gun used during the assassination.
Gavrilo Princip, who had gone through military training when he was recruited to the Black Hand organization, killed both Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife using the Model 1910 Browning semiautomatic pistol. While other previous sources erroneously mention the FN Model 1900 as being the weapon Gavrilo Princip used, a Jesuit community house in Austria announced the FN Model 1910 after its recovery in 2004.
Labeled as the gun that killed 8.5 million people, the FN Model 1910 was a departure for Browning. Initially, manufactured by both FN in Europe and Colt Firearms of the US (decided not to produce it later on), was introduced in 1910 and used a novel operating spring, which surrounded the barrel. The gun which incorporated the standard Browning striker-firing mechanism also had three safety mechanisms in one package and included a grip safety along with a magazine safety and an external safety lever. The pistol also came chambered in both the .380 ACP with a six-round magazine and the .32 ACP with a seven-round magazine.
The gun was offered to Father Anton Puntigam, a Jesuit priest who was responsible for the archduke and duchess’s last rites. His plan was to place the pistol in a museum but died in 1926 before he could do so. The gun was donated to the Vienna Museum of Military History by the Jesuit community. The car which Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife used together with the bloodied pillow, he rested his head on are also found in the Museum.