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Gun Control Update: Maryland Teen Stockpiling Guns and the Plans for Bush's Motorcade Route

August 06, 2008 10:54 AM ET | John Mashek | Permanent Link | Print

For those folks who railed against my stand on gun control (and yes, I read even the insulting ones), there's another sad chapter to this story.

In the Maryland suburbs of Washington, an 18-year-old was found this week with an arsenal of weapons in his basement, along with papers on making bombs and a map of the route George W. Bush's motorcade takes to the presidential retreat at Camp David. His father apparently helped purchase the weapons.

Question: Were these weapons for self-defense? Any responsible person knows the answer.

Tags: Maryland | guns | weapons | George W. Bush

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John MashekJohn W. Mashek covered politics in Washington for four decades with U.S. News & World Report, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and the Boston Globe. His primary beats were Congress, the White House, and national politics. He covered every presidential election from 1960 to 1996. He was a panelist in three televised presidential debates in 1984, 1988, and 1992.

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