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The gunman who attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump used a firearm with a “collapsible stock”, likely making it easier to conceal, FBI Director Christopher Wray has said. <\/p>\n

Mr Wray is testifying on Tuesday before the House Judiciary Committee about the shooting at the Butler, Pennsylvania, campaign rally earlier this month. <\/p>\n

A bullet grazed Trump’s right ear and the attack left one audience member dead and two others badly wounded.<\/p>\n

Mr Wray also said the gunman researched the 1963 assassination of John F Kennedy in the days before the shooting. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In his opening remarks, Mr Wray called the attempted assassination of former President Trump “an attack on our democracy and our democratic process”.<\/p>\n

“We will not and do not tolerate political violence of any time especially a despicable account of this magnitude,” he told lawmakers. <\/p>\n

The FBI director said officials found eight cartridges on the roof where the gunman, identified as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, was located. <\/p>\n

Crooks was killed by a counter sniper during the incident. <\/p>\n

The AR-style rifle used in the shooting had a collapsible stock, which can make a weapon shorter and easier to transport. <\/p>\n

The first people to see the gunman with a rifle did so when he was already on the roof from where he fired, Mr Wray said. <\/p>\n

He also confirmed that the gunman flew a drone over the rally about two hours before the shooting. <\/p>\n

Additionally, the FBI found three “relatively crude” explosive devices – one in the gunman’s home and two others in his car. <\/p>\n

These devices were capable of being detonated remotely and the gunman had a transmitter, Mr Wray said. <\/p>\n

It did not appear as if Crooks would have been able to detonate them from the roof where he was perched at the time of the shooting, he added. <\/p>\n

The FBI head said the agency still does not have a motive for the assassination attempt but the gunman appears to have become “very focused” on Trump from around 6 July.<\/p>\n

On that day, the gunman searched for “how far was Oswald from Kennedy” and registered for the Trump rally, Mr Wray said. <\/p>\n

Investigators also found the gunman had conducted searches for news articles about other public figures. <\/p>\n

Mr Wray said there is no evidence that the gunman planned the attack with others. <\/p>\n

The FBI is handling the criminal investigation into the attempted assassination and Mr Wray told the committee the agency will “leave no stone unturned”. <\/p>\n

“The men and women of the FBI will continue to work tirelessly to get to the bottom of what happened,” he said.<\/p>\n

Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned from her position on Tuesday after testifying before a different congressional committee earlier this week. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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