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Marine vet who shot at Kansas police before murder-suicide previously built pipe bombs and kept an AK-47 under his bed

The suspect in the shootings Monday of a central Kansas sheriff and undersheriff was a former Marine who once kept an AK-47 machine gun under his bed and stored two...