Americans and their guns:

Oregon School Shooter Was 15 and Heavily Armed

The teenager who shot a fellow student in an Oregon school was identified Wednesday as Jared Michael Padgett. He came to the school with a rifle, a handgun and nine loaded magazines capable of holding several hundred rounds of ammunition.

The freshman killed Emilio Hoffman, 14, in the school locker room and exchanged gunfire in the hallway with police before killing himself.

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