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. A report on this incident was commissioned by British Home Secretary, Douglas Hurd, from the Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police, Colin Smith.
The massacre led to the Firearms (Amendment) Act, 1988, which banned the ownership of semi-automatic centre-fire rifles and restricted the use of other firearms with a capacity of more than two rounds. The Hungerford Report had demonstrated that Ryan's collection of weapons was legally licensed.
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