Lupara
Italian word used to refer to a sawed-off shotgun of the break-open type.
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Sawed-off shotgun
Type of shotgun with a shorter gun barrel—typically under 18 in—and often a shortened or absent stock.
Type of shotgun with a shorter gun barrel—typically under 18 in—and often a shortened or absent stock.
A sawn-off shotgun with exposed, manually cocked hammers and dual triggers is known as a lupara ("wolf-shot") in Italy and, while associated with organized crime, was originally used by Sicilian farmers and shepherds to protect their vineyards and flocks of animals.
David Hennessy
Police chief of New Orleans, Louisiana.
Police chief of New Orleans, Louisiana.
It is likely that the gunmen were wielding sawn-off shotguns — known in Italian terms as lupara — a common type of execution among Mafiosi.
Lupara bianca
Lupara bianca ("white lupara") is a journalistic term for a Mafia murder done in such a way that the victim's body is never found.
Cesare Terranova
Italian judge and politician from Sicily notable for his anti-Mafia stance.
Italian judge and politician from Sicily notable for his anti-Mafia stance.
Angelo La Barbera got 22 years and Tommaso Buscetta 14 years for two so-called “white deaths” - the so-called lupara bianca which is used to refer to a mafia-style murder in which the victim's body is deliberately hidden.
Antonio Salamone
Member of the Sicilian Mafia and a member of the first Sicilian Mafia Commission.
Member of the Sicilian Mafia and a member of the first Sicilian Mafia Commission.
He was considered to be a victim of a lupara bianca – a mafia-style murder in which the victim's body is deliberately hidden.
Greco Mafia clan
Historically one of the most influential Mafia clans in Sicily and Calabria, from the late 19th century.
Historically one of the most influential Mafia clans in Sicily and Calabria, from the late 19th century.
The Ciaculli faction reacted a few months later when two of Piddu the lieutenant's men were shot with a lupara, the typical Sicilian short-barrelled shotgun.
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Mafia weapons: Baseball Bat, Sawed-Off Shotgun, Tommy Gun, Molotov Cocktail, Ice Pick
Paolo Violi
Italian-Canadian mobster and capodecina in the Cotroni crime family of Montreal.
Italian-Canadian mobster and capodecina in the Cotroni crime family of Montreal.
Just under a year after Francesco Violi’s murder, on 22 January 1978, Paolo Violi was shot in the head at close range with a lupara in the Bar Jean-Talon after being invited to play cards by Vincenzo Randisi.
March 14, 1891 New Orleans lynchings
The March 14, 1891, New Orleans lynchings were the murders of 11 Italian Americans and immigrants in New Orleans, Louisiana, by a mob for their alleged role in the murder of police chief David Hennessy after some of them had been acquitted at trial.
The March 14, 1891, New Orleans lynchings were the murders of 11 Italian Americans and immigrants in New Orleans, Louisiana, by a mob for their alleged role in the murder of police chief David Hennessy after some of them had been acquitted at trial.
One was a muzzle-loading shotgun,of a type which was widely used throughout the American South, but which the New Orleans Police Department claimed was a lupara, a "favorite" weapon of the Sicilian Mafia.
Shotgun
Long-barreled firearm designed to shoot a straight-walled cartridge known as a shotshell, which usually discharges numerous small pellet-like spherical sub-projectiles called shot, or sometimes a single solid projectile called a slug.
Long-barreled firearm designed to shoot a straight-walled cartridge known as a shotshell, which usually discharges numerous small pellet-like spherical sub-projectiles called shot, or sometimes a single solid projectile called a slug.
The sawed-off shotgun is sometimes known as a "lupara" (in Italian a generic reference to the word "lupo" ("wolf")) in Southern Italy and Sicily.