The Last Slice

Brian Harrison Mack
Jul 26, 2017 · 23 min read

Sometimes it only takes something very small to drastically change someone’s life. For example: the .380 caliber pistol round (a 9x17mm cartridge) used in the Fabrique Nationale model 1910 semi-automatic pistol bearing the serial number “19074”. The very same pistol that was leveled at Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife on June 28th, 1914 by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip. Not a large object by any means, but it, and the several others like it that…

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