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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut man sentenced to two years in state prison last month for bringing a semiautomatic rifle and other firearms onto a college campus and causing a lockdown has received five years of probation in a related federal prosecution.
Twenty-three-year-old William Dong of Fairfield was sentenced Thursday in Hartford federal court for illegally transporting a Bushmaster XM-15 rifle from Pennsylvania to Connecticut, where that rifle is banned.
Dong was arrested at the University of New Haven in December 2013. Authorities say he brought two loaded handguns into a class, and police found the rifle in his car. Officials also found 2,700 rounds of ammunition and newspaper clippings about the Colorado theater shooting at Dong's home.
Dong's lawyer says Dong brought the guns on campus to protect himself and fellow students.
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