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Sniper Guns

NPR's Larry Abramson reports police are trying to determine how accused sniper John Allen Muhammed was able to obtain a weapon. The $800 firearm that Muhammed allegedly used in the shootings was registered at a gun store in Tacoma, Washington, but the store has no record of it being sold or what happened to it.

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Larry Abramson is NPR's National Security Correspondent. He covers the Pentagon, as well as issues relating to the thousands of vets returning home from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.