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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Gloria Oladipo

Maker of rifle used in Texas shooting faces outrage over ad featuring child

A row of different AR-15 style rifles are displayed for sale in Aurora, Colorado.
A row of different AR-15 style rifles are displayed for sale in Aurora, Colorado. Photograph: Alex Brandon/AP

The maker of the rifle used in the Texas elementary school shooting is facing fresh outrage over an advertisement featuring a young child posted days before the killings.

Georgia-based Daniel Defense, which manufacturers the gun used in the Uvalde mass shooting where 21 people died, posted an ad on Twitter on 16 May showing a toddler holding a rifle, with the caption: “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”

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