The weapon used to spark a series of events responsible for approximately eight million deaths has been found. The long-lost pistol used to assassinate Arch-Duke Franz Ferdinand now on display in the Vienna Military Museum.. After the conviction of the murderer, it was given to the Jesuit preist who performed last rites on the fatally wounded monarch. His plans to open a museum dedicated to the memory of the Arch-Duke fell foul of the beginning of the World War, and the pistol has been stored with other artifacts in a store room of a Jesuit monastery in Austria.

Gun that started World War I found