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JAMES FILES’ XP-100

I’d long heard rumors of the XP-100 being used in the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy, but I never pursued the details. If this conspiracy theory is to be believed, the XP-100 (in the prototype .222 Remington chambering) was the gun deployed by the “Grassy Knoll” shooter, from

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