Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index The Hungerford Massacre was a shooting that occurred in Hungerford, Berkshire, England on August 19, 1987. A 27-year-old unemployed local labourer, Michael Robert Ryan, armed with several weapons including an AK-47 rifle, shot seventeen people dead, including his mother, and wounded fifteen others, then shot himself. The massacre led to the Firearms (Amendment) Act, 1988, which banned the use of semi-automatic centre-fire rifles and restricted the use of other firearms with a capacity of more than two rounds. Ryan's collection of weapons was legally licensed. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.