US presidents photographed with guns - in pictures

Posing as an 'outdoorsman', Theodore Roosevelt points a rifle during a photo session. Roosevelt was US president from September 1901 to March 1909 Photograph: Harvard University Press/AP

Franklin D Roosevelt makes a September 1940 visit to the US army's research centre in Aberdeen, Maryland, where he is shown the Garand semi-automatic rifle Photograph: AP

As chief of the allied invasion during the second world war, Dwight Eisenhower fires a Browning light machine gun during an inspection of an infantry unit in 1944 Photograph: AP

Calvin Coolidge shoots clay pigeons at his holiday home in Wisconsin in 1928 Photograph: AP

Jimmy Carter looks down the barrel of a shotgun during a visit to the national shooting sports foundation show in Atlanta in 1984 Photograph: Ric Feld/AP

George Bush Snr holds a rifle given to him as a gift in Montana in 1992 Photograph: Ron Edmonds/AP

George W Bush hunts doves in Texas in 1994 Photograph: David J Phillip/AP

Bill Clinton holds a Colt AR-15 rifle during a 1994 ceremony at the White House, during which he launched a campaign to ban assault weapons Photograph: Dennis Cook/AP

Barack Obama shoots clay targets at Camp David, Maryland in 2012 Photograph: The White House/Getty Images