S&W cartridges may be fired in arms chambered for these longer cartridges. Longer cartridges are unsafe in short chambers, so none of these longer and more powerful cartridges should be loaded into arms designed for the .32 S&W. Use in assassinations Guns chambered in .32 S&W have been used in at least three notable assassinations: Gaetano Bresci used an Iver Johnson revolver chambered in .32 S&W to assassinate King Umberto I of Italy on July 29, 1900. Bresci hit his victim with four shots. Leon Czolgosz used an Iver Johnson revolver chambered in .32 S&W to assassinate United States President William McKinley at the Temple of Music in Buffalo, New York, on September 6, 1901. McKinley was shot twice in the abdomen at close range, and although he did not die immediately, he eventually succumbed to gangrene on September 14, 1901. Giuseppe Zangara used a United States Revolver Company (a subsidiary of Iver Johnson) revolver chambered in .32 S&W to assassinate Anton Cermak, Mayor of Chicago, on February 15, 1933, in what may have been an attempt to assassinate President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt. Cermak was shot in the lung and died on March 6, 1933. Chambered weapons Notable guns chambered in .32 S&W include: Colt Police Positive Nirbheek Smith & Wesson Lemon Squeezer Smith & Wesson Model 1 1/2 Smith & Wesson Model 3 Smith & Wesson Model 30 Union Automatic Revolver Other gun types, or gun manufacturers, using .32 S&W include: Forehand & Wadsworth Garrucha Iver Johnson Merwin Hulbert Röhm Gesellschaft Series ALFA Steel See also 8 mm caliber List of handgun cartridges Table of handgun and rifle cartridges References Pistol and rifle cartridges 1878 introductions Smith & Wesson cartridges