US presidents photographed with guns - in pictures

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Sun 3 Feb 2013 07.37 EST First published on Sun 3 Feb 2013 07.37 EST

• Posing as an 'outdoorsman', Theodore Roosevelt points a rifle during a photo session. Roosevelt was US president from September 1901 to March 1909

  Photograph: Harvard University Press/AP

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• Franklin D Roosevelt makes a September 1940 visit to the US army's research centre in Aberdeen, Maryland, where he is shown the Garand semi-automatic rifle

  Photograph: AP

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• As chief of the allied invasion during the second world war, Dwight Eisenhower fires a Browning light machine gun during an inspection of an infantry unit in 1944

  Photograph: AP

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• Calvin Coolidge shoots clay pigeons at his holiday home in Wisconsin in 1928

  Photograph: AP

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• Jimmy Carter looks down the barrel of a shotgun during a visit to the national shooting sports foundation show in Atlanta in 1984

  Photograph: Ric Feld/AP

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• George Bush Snr holds a rifle given to him as a gift in Montana in 1992

  Photograph: Ron Edmonds/AP

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• George W Bush hunts doves in Texas in 1994

  Photograph: David J Phillip/AP

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• Bill Clinton holds a Colt AR-15 rifle during a 1994 ceremony at the White House, during which he launched a campaign to ban assault weapons

  Photograph: Dennis Cook/AP

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• Barack Obama shoots clay targets at Camp David, Maryland in 2012

  Photograph: The White House/Getty Images

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