Gun That Started the First World War

[jamese]

I ran accross this and thought others might be interested as well:

The Gun That Started the First World War Has Been Discovered

Ninety years ago, on June 28, 1914, Gavrilo Princip shot and killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie as they were riding through Sarajevo. The assassination was the spark that started World War I. But what happened to the infamous gun? After the trial of Princip, the Browning pistol was given to Jesuit priest Anton Puntigam, who had given the couple their last rites. Though Puntigam had planned on opening a museum about the Archduke, his plans were halted by the war. After Puntigam died in 1926, the gun stayed in a Jesuit community house in Austria, pretty much forgotten until recent publicity of the 90th anniversary of the shooting rekindled interest. The gun will be put on display at the Vienna Museum of Military History.

Jim