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Maker of Uvalde shooter’s rifle posted image of child with gun before massacre

Daniel Defense manufactured the rifle used to kill 21 people in Texas town; its plans to exhibit at NRA convention this weekend apparently are off.

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Updated May 26, 2022 at 10:26 a.m. EDT|Published May 26, 2022 at 9:55 a.m. EDT
White crosses marking the deaths are pictured in front of Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas early on the morning of Thursday. (Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post)
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Gunmaker Daniel Defense posted online an advertising photo of a toddler holding one of its AR-15-style rifles just days before one of its firearms was used in the elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Tex.

The photo shows a young boy holding the rifle on his lap, along with the caption: “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”