"The story of America's politically prominent pistol"
Gary Mark Gilmore murdered two men and was sentenced to death.
He was the FIRST to be executed for a decade resulting in the return
 of Capital Punishment.

No other firearm in any case has legally affected
America like The Gilmore Gun
"Becoming The World's most famous FIREARM"
By David Usborne in New York Saturday, 15 July 2006
Scholars and supporters of capital punishment in the United States are being given the chance to purchase at auction what may be the rarest of all death-penalty souvenirs - the handgun purportedly used by Gary Gilmore to murder a motel clerk in Utah almost 30 years ago.
The first man to be sentenced to death after the US Supreme Court reinstituted the death penalty in 1977, Gilmore was killed by firing squad. A morbid mythology has since clung to him, spurred partly by Norman Mailer's, The Executioner's Song, which became a film starring Tommy Lee Jones.
After Gilmore was dead, the police returned the pistol to the gun shop he stole it from in Spanish Fork, Utah . In 2002, it was bought by a local bail bondsman, Dennis Stilson.