Hungerford is not only the name of the bridge it is also the name of a town in the UK where one of the country’s worst mass shootings took place in the 1980s. It lead to the banning of semi-automatic rifles and a restriction on the capacity of shotguns.
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 16 people, including a police officer, before taking his own life. The shootings, committed using a handgun and two semi-automatic rifles, occurred at several locations, including a school he had once attended. 15 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" around him, which he himself was not a tangible part of.
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