Which lone gunman went on the rampage around the town of Hungerford in 1987?
"1997 criminalised private possession of most handguns having a calibre over .22; the Snowdrop Campaign continued to press for a wider ban, and in 1997 the incoming Labour government introduced the Firearms (Amendment) (No. 2) Act was passed. This extended this to most handguns with a calibre of .22, excepting antique handguns and black-powder revolvers. On 19 August 1987, 27-year-old Michael Ryan, armed with two semi-automatic rifles (a Type 56 sporter, and an M1 carbine), and a Beretta 92 pistol, dressed in combat fatigues and proceeded around the town of Hungerford killing 16 people, wounding fifteen and shooting himself, in"
"Hungerford massacre The Hungerford massacre was a series of random shootings in Hungerford, England, on 19 August 1987, when Michael Robert Ryan, an unemployed antique dealer and handyman, fatally shot sixteen people, including a police officer, before shooting himself. The shootings, committed using a handgun and two semi-automatic rifles, occurred at several locations, including a school he had once attended. Fifteen other people were also shot but survived. No firm motive for the killings has ever been established, although one psychologist has theorised Ryan's motive for the massacre had been a form of ""anger and contempt for the ordinary life"""
"who will hang their illness on to your hook."" Hungerford massacre The Hungerford massacre was a series of random shootings in Hungerford, England, on 19 August 1987, when Michael Robert Ryan, an unemployed antique dealer and handyman, fatally shot sixteen people, including a police officer, before shooting himself. The shootings, committed using a handgun and two semi-automatic rifles, occurred at several locations, including a school he had once attended. Fifteen other people were also shot but survived. No firm motive for the killings has ever been established, although one psychologist has theorised Ryan's motive for the massacre had been a"
"""conclusive wording... that the guns being supplied will stay in Syria and will only be used by people so authorised by the Syrian government."" The Hungerford massacre occurred in Hungerford, Berkshire, England, on Wednesday 19 August 1987. A 27-year-old unemployed local labourer, Michael Robert Ryan, armed with several fully licensed weapons, including a semi-automatic Chinese Type 56 rifle, shot and killed 16 people. The Chinese Type 56 had been legally sold to Ryan by Ranger, who was the sole UK importer of the weapon, dealing directly with the manufacturer, Norinco. He was sentenced in July 2012 to three-and-a-half years imprisonment"
"Cumbria shootings The Cumbria shootings was a shooting spree which occurred on 2 June 2010 when a lone gunman, Derrick Bird, killed 12 people and injured 11 others before killing himself in Cumbria, England. Along with the 1987 Hungerford massacre, the 1989 Monkseaton shootings, and the 1996 Dunblane school massacre, it is one of the worst criminal acts involving firearms in British history. The series of attacks began in mid-morning in Lamplugh and moved to Frizington, Whitehaven, Egremont, Gosforth, and Seascale, sparking a major manhunt by the Cumbria Constabulary, with assistance from Civil Nuclear Constabulary officers. Bird, a 52-year-old local"
"the Janjaweed carrying the rifles (most of them provided by the Sudanese government). In 1987, Michael Ryan used a legally owned Type-56 rifle, and two other firearms, in the Hungerford massacre in the United Kingdom, in which he shot 32 people, 17 of whom died. The attack led to the passage of Firearms (Amendment) Act 1988, which bans ownership of semi-automatic centre-fire rifles and restricts the use of shotguns. In the United States, a Type-56 rifle, purchased in Oregon under a false name, was used in the 1989 Stockton schoolyard shooting in which Patrick Purdy fired over 100 rounds to"
"Crimes That Shook Britain Crimes That Shook Britain is a television series first aired in 2008, focusing on uncovering the truth behind crimes that shocked the nation. Through drama reconstructions, witness accounts, interviews with police and the victims families, the series explores some of Britain's most infamous cases and murderers. 1. The Hungerford massacre; in August 1987, 27-year-old Michael Ryan shot dead 16 people (including his elderly mother) in the Berkshire town of Hungerford before turning the gun on himself. 2. Harold Shipman; in January 2000, 54-year-old Greater Manchester GP Harold Shipman is found guilty of murdering 15 patients between"
"to buy two more. This was approved on 30 April 1987. On 14 July, he applied for another variation, to cover two semi-automatic rifles, which was approved on 30 July. At the time of the massacre, he was in licensed possession of the following weapons: Ryan used the Beretta pistol, and the Type 56 and M1 rifles, in the massacre. The CZ pistol was being repaired by a dealer at the time. The Type 56 was purchased from firearms dealer Mick Ranger. The first shooting occurred seven miles (11 km) to the west of Hungerford in Savernake Forest in Wiltshire,"
"the perpetrators killed themselves. Only one person died in the 1989 Monkseaton shootings, but 14 others were wounded, and the perpetrator did not kill himself. In the days following the massacre, the British tabloid press was filled with stories about Ryan's life. Press biographies all stated that he had a near-obsessive fascination with firearms. The majority claimed that Ryan had possessed magazines about survival skills and firearms, ""Soldier of Fortune"" being frequently named. Press reports claimed that he was obsessed with the film ""First Blood"", which was erroneously described as featuring events similar to the Hungerford massacre, when in fact"
"what became known as the ""Hungerford massacre"". Ryan's collection of weapons had been legally licensed, according to the Hungerford Report. On 13 March 1996, Thomas Hamilton, a 43-year-old former scout leader who had been ousted by The Scout Association in 1974, shot dead sixteen young children and their teacher, Gweneth Mayor, in Dunblane Primary School's gymnasium with two Browning Hi-Power 9×19mm pistols and two Smith & Wesson .357 Magnum revolvers. He then shot himself. The four handguns used in the attack were legally owned. There is a memorial to the seventeen victims in the local cemetery and a cenotaph in"
"Mick Ranger Mick Ranger is an Essex, UK based firearms dealer. He previously sold Michael Ryan the Chinese ""Type 56"" copy of AK-47 rifle that he used in 1987 to kill eight people during the Hungerford massacre. Born in 1947, Ranger runs Imperial Defence Services, which is based in the Essex village of Takeley. His firm has operations in Bulgaria, Cyprus, Nigeria, Australia, South Africa and Vietnam. The company website states: The website does not quote prices, although it is claimed that it previously stated the company sold grenade-launchers for £450, and a collection of rifles from £195 to a"
"in the head with the Beretta pistol. One of the statements Ryan made towards the end of the negotiations was widely reported: ""Hungerford must be a bit of a mess. I wish I had stayed in bed."" The dead were: Hungerford was policed by two sergeants and twelve constables, and on the morning of 19 August 1987 the duty cover for the section consisted of one sergeant, two patrol constables and one station duty officer. A number of factors hampered the police response: The Hungerford Report was commissioned by Home Secretary Douglas Hurd from the Chief Constable of Thames Valley"
"is: Britain has had three spree killings or mass shootings since 1980. The Hungerford massacre of 1987, the Dunblane school massacre of 1996, and the Cumbria shootings of 2010. After Hungerford and Dunblane, firearms legislation was amended, tightening firearms restrictions in the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom Gun legislation has been described by ""The Huffington Post"" as 'one of the toughest regimes in the world'. After Hungerford, the Firearms (Amendment) Act 1988 criminalised most semi-automatic long-barrelled weapons; it was generally supported by the Labour opposition although some Labour backbenchers thought it inadequate. After the second incident, the Firearms (Amendment) Act"
"of the Kennet was for the centuries, until an 18th-century widespread growth in cultivation the area, in Savernake Forest. St. Lawrence's parish church stands next to the Kennet and Avon Canal. It was rebuilt in 1814–1816 by John Pinch the elder in Gothic Revival style and refurbished again in the 1850s. In the late 19th century, two policeman were shot by poachers in Eddington. Their memorial crosses still stand where they fell. The Hungerford massacre occurred on 19 August 1987. A 27-year-old unemployed local labourer, Michael Robert Ryan, armed with several weapons including a Type 56 assault rifle and a"
"and shotguns, subject to licensing, but handguns were effectively banned after the Dunblane school massacre in 1996 with the exception of Northern Ireland. Dunblane was the UK's first and only school shooting. There has been one spree killing since Dunblane, the Cumbria shootings in June 2010, which involved a shotgun and a .22 calibre rifle, both legally-held. Prior to Dunblane though, there had only been one mass shooting carried out by a civilian in the entire history of Great Britain, which took place in Hungerford on 19 August 1987. Police in the United Kingdom (aside from Northern Ireland) are not"
"failure of the Kansas City Massacre, and perhaps retribution for the Fox Lake Massacre. Miller's life is the subject of a 1987 movie directed by Rod Hewitt and released under the title ""The Verne Miller Story"" or ""Gangland: The Verne Miller Story"" in which Miller is portrayed by actor Scott Glenn. Vernon C. Miller Vernon C. Miller (August 25, 1896 – November 29, 1933) was a freelance Prohibition gunman, bootlegger, bank robber and former sheriff in Huron, South Dakota, who, as the only identified gunman in the Kansas City massacre, was found beaten and strangled to death shortly after the"
"John O'Gaunt School John O'Gaunt School is a mixed comprehensive school in Hungerford, Berkshire for students aged 11 to 18. It was Berkshire's first community school. Opened in January 1963, the school is a fusion of 1960s decor and 1990s pre-fabricated buildings. The school gained Technology College status in 2003, and was renamed ""John O'Gaunt Community Technology College"", before becoming ""John O'Gaunt School"" in 2012. On 19 August 1987, the school gained notoriety as the site of the denouement of the Hungerford massacre. Michael Robert Ryan made the then-empty school the site of his final stand and suicide, having killed"
"for setting up a deal to sell missiles and handguns to Azerbaijan. There is a ban on exporting arms to Azerbaijan that has been in place since 1992. Mick Ranger Mick Ranger is an Essex, UK based firearms dealer. He previously sold Michael Ryan the Chinese ""Type 56"" copy of AK-47 rifle that he used in 1987 to kill eight people during the Hungerford massacre. Born in 1947, Ranger runs Imperial Defence Services, which is based in the Essex village of Takeley. His firm has operations in Bulgaria, Cyprus, Nigeria, Australia, South Africa and Vietnam. The company website states: The"
"minute's silence for the Cumbria victims was also marked prior to David Cameron's second Prime Minister's Questions in Parliament. The funerals of the majority of Bird's victims were held at various churches in West Cumbria. A memorial fund has been established by the Cumbria Community Foundation to aid victims and communities affected by the West Cumbria shootings. Cumbria shootings The Cumbria shootings was a shooting spree which occurred on 2 June 2010 when a lone gunman, Derrick Bird, killed 12 people and injured 11 others before killing himself in Cumbria, England. Along with the 1987 Hungerford massacre, the 1989 Monkseaton"
"Hungerford force. Coincidentally, Constable Wainwright had signed Ryan's request to extend his firearm certificate only weeks earlier. Next was Kevin Lance, who was shot in the upper arm as he drove his Ford Transit along Tarrant's Hill. Further up Priory Avenue, a 51-year-old handyman named Eric Vardy and his passenger, Steven Ball, drove into Ryan's path while travelling to a job in Vardy's Leyland Sherpa. Ball later recalled that he saw Lance clutching his arm and running into a narrow side street. As Ball focused on Lance, Ryan shattered the windscreen with a burst of bullets. Vardy was hit twice"
"Ryan then walked towards the town centre of Hungerford, where police were attempting to evacuate the public. During this, Ryan killed 67-year-old Douglas Wainwright and injured his wife Kathleen in their car. Kathleen would later say that her husband hit the brakes as soon as the windscreen shattered. Ryan fired eight rounds into the Wainwrights' Datsun Bluebird, hitting Douglas in the head and Kathleen in the chest and shoulder. Kathleen, seeing that her husband was dead and that Ryan was approaching the car whilst reloading, unbuckled her seatbelt and ran. The pair were visiting their son, a policeman on the"
"The massacre led to the Firearms (Amendment) Act 1988, which banned the ownership of semi-automatic centre-fire rifles and restricted the use of shotguns with a magazine capacity of more than two rounds. The Hungerford Report had demonstrated that Ryan's collection of weapons was legally licensed. Hungerford is a civil parish, covering the town of Hungerford and a surrounding rural area, including the small village of Hungerford Newtown. The parish shares boundaries with the Berkshire parishes of Lambourn, East Garston, Great Shefford, Kintbury and Inkpen, and with the Wiltshire parishes of Shalbourne, Froxfield, Ramsbury and Chilton Foliat. Parish council responsibilities are"
"two playing against each other, with one person on each team being a professional marksman, and the other person being a popular athlete or celebrity of the time (usually one who did have some experience with guns though). Celebrities included Rollie Fingers and Blair Underwood. The BBC also started a series of TV programmes on the same format, with the first based at Hever Castle in Kent. The series was cancelled after the second programme which was based in Hungerford and recorded just one week before the Hungerford massacre in August, 1987. Celebrities such as the cricketer Ian Botham and"
"around him, which he himself was not a tangible part of. A report on the massacre was commissioned by Home Secretary Douglas Hurd. The Firearms (Amendment) Act 1988 was passed in the wake of the incident, which bans the ownership of semi-automatic centre-fire rifles and restricts the use of shotguns with a capacity of more than three cartridges. The shootings remain one of the deadliest firearms incidents in British history. Michael Robert Ryan was an unemployed labourer and antiques dealer. He was born at Savernake Hospital in Marlborough, Wiltshire, near Hungerford, Berkshire, on 18 May 1960. His father, Alfred Henry"
"was without money, and had no ability or experience to earn a decent wage and, consequently, took on menial work. Below is a timeline of events which occurred on the evening of 9 August 1987: By the end of the spree, 19 people had been wounded and seven people had been killed: Dusan Flajnik (53), Vesna Markovska (24), Robert Mitchell (27), Johnny Muscat (26), Gina Papaioannou (21), Tracey Skinner (23), and Kenneth Stanton (21). The events of this day were pieced together after investigation by police, along with the help of Knight himself. At 11.30am on Sunday 9 August 1987,"
"as its shooting ground. Hungerford Hares running club was established in 2007. Hungerford is the only place in the country to have continuously celebrated Hocktide or Tutti Day (the second Tuesday after Easter). Today it marks the end of the town council's financial and administrative year, but in the past it was a more general celebration associated with the town's great patron, John of Gaunt (see below). Its origins are thought lie in celebrations following King Alfred's expulsion of the Danes. The ""Bellman"" (or Town Crier) summons the Commoners of the town to the Hocktide Court held at the town"
"seven people and injured six, none of them personally known to him. Victims: Greg Read, 41, a father of three and Vietnam veteran, was awarded the Star of Courage for saving the lives of eight people during the rampage. Strathfield massacre The Strathfield massacre was a shooting rampage at a shopping mall in Strathfield, Sydney, Australia, on 17 August 1991. The shooter was Wade Frankum, who killed himself as police arrived at the scene. The incident left eight dead and six wounded. Wade Frankum was born in 1958 and had worked at various occupations including as a retail assistant. In"
"As of 2018, this incident ranked as the sixth-deadliest shooting in the U.S. by a single shooter. On October 16, 1991, 35-year-old George Hennard, an unemployed man who had been in the Merchant Marine, drove a Ford Ranger pickup truck through the plate-glass front window of a Luby's Cafeteria in Killeen, Texas. Hennard yelled, ""All women of Killeen and Belton are vipers! This is what you've done to me and my family! This is what Bell County did to me... this is payback day!"" He then opened fire on the patrons and staff with both a 9mm Glock 17 pistol"
"Police, Colin Smith. Ryan's collection of weapons had been legally licensed, according to the Report. The Firearms (Amendment) Act 1988 was passed in the wake of the massacre; it bans the ownership of semi-automatic centre-fire rifles and restricts the use of shotguns with a capacity of more than three cartridges (in magazine plus the breech). The Hungerford massacre remains, along with the 1996 Dunblane school massacre, and the 2010 Cumbria shootings, one of the worst criminal atrocities involving firearms to occur in the United Kingdom. The Dunblane and Cumbria shootings had a similar number of fatalities, and in both cases"
"at studies and gained good results only in weapons expertise exercises. Knight was advised to leave the army after an incident involving his sergeant. Knight stabbed his superior while drinking. On the evening of Sunday, 9 August 1987 Knight began a shooting rampage in Hoddle Street in the Melbourne suburb of Clifton Hill. The shootings resulted in the deaths of seven people, and serious injury to 19 others. After a police chase lasting more than 30 minutes, Knight was captured in nearby Fitzroy North and arrested for the shootings. During the trial, Dr Bartholomew stated that Knight has a personality"
"when 32 people were killed and 17 wounded by a lone gunman. At the time, it was the deadliest shooting carried out by a single gunman in U.S. history, and generated considerable media coverage and discussion. In the mid-1600s, English colonists were still uncertain of what lay beyond the Allegheny Mountains, whose topography and possession by native inhabitants, Tutelo-speaking tribes, were a barrier to expanded settlement by the Colony of Virginia. Abraham Wood, who commanded Fort Henry on the frontier (now the site of Petersburg, Virginia), and operated an Indian trading post nearby, organized several expeditions to explore farther west."
"Firearms (Amendment) Act 1988 The Firearms (Amendment) Act 1988 (1988 c.45) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which is still in force. The Act, as amended, tightens controls on the possession of firearms, and applies throughout the whole of the United Kingdom ""except"" for Northern Ireland. It gained the Royal Assent on 15 November 1988, and came into force two months later. The Act was passed in response to the Hungerford massacre of 1987, where sixteen people had been killed by a man using an illegally owned semi-automatic rifle ""(M1 Carbine)"", a legally owned semi-automatic rifle"
"as he escaped. It was claimed that Gerard Steenson was the IPLO's getaway driver as he wanted to oversee the operation himself. Peter Stewart said the attack was ""a very military-like operation. The killings resulted in a all out feud between the IPLO and the INLA with a total of 11 people being killed in the feud. On 15 March 1987, Gerard Steenson was himself killed in the feud along with another IPLO Volunteer as they sat in a car in Springhill Avenue, Ballymurphy in Belfast by INLA gunmen. It was reported that Torney had set up the ambush as"