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D.C. museum acquires rifle of America’s ‘first active shooter’

by Chris Eger

Perhaps one of the most infamous firearms ever carried by a criminal in his final act, the bolt-action rifle among those used by Charles Whitman in the 1966 University of Texas shootings, is now on display.

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