ID: Man Carryng Pool Cue Case Shuts Down University

Gun Watch ^ | 3 March, 2017 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

Our universities have become hotbeds of paranoia about guns. They have become irrational about guns in the hands of anyone who is not wearing a uniform. The paranoia has spread to any object that might be perceived as similar to a gun.

Idaho University at Pocatello showed this paranoia on Monday, the 27th of February, 2017.  A student reported seeing a man carrying what she thought was a gun *case*.  This deserves emphasis.  She did not see a gun.  She thought she saw a gun case. The police were quickly alerted and the school was pretty much shut down as the police searched buildings for the "threat". From kpvi.com:

Pocatello Police and Idaho State University’s Public Safety police were all hands on deck, after reports of a man carrying a gun case on campus.

It all happened around 2:00 p.m. Staff and students were quickly alerted through text messages that police were on campus. Text alerts were sent to Idaho State University students warning them of an unidentified man carrying a gun case on the north side of Frazier Hall. About six police cars were on campus. Pocatello police assisted campus public safety. Some officers could be seen carrying funs after going through each building and sweeping the campus.

There were no shots. There was no brandishing of a firearm. There was no gun. There was no gun case.  It turned out that it was a pool cue case that was innocently carried on campus.  From kpvi.com:

ISU’s public safety officers and Pocatello Police were all on scene screening every building. More than 24 hours later police say the situation was unfounded. Kyle Mauck posted a picture on Facebook saying at the time the report came in, he was walking on campus near Frazier Hall with his pool cues bag, and may have been mistaken as someone with a gun case. PPD tells KPVI Mauck went to police saying he might be the person they were looking for. Police continued their investigation this morning. They showed the witness a picture of Mauck with the pool cues bag. The witness says, that’s the person they saw with the case.

Think of all the ways a person who wanted to conceal a gun could do so, especially on a northern campus in winter.  Any pistol, including the largest, could be concealed under a parka or most practical winter coats.  Most shotguns and rifles including most semi-automatics, can be easily broken down to fit inside a gym bag.  Most would not need to be broken down to fit inside a duffel bag.

I will let the reader dwell on the possibilities of card board boxes, cases for art supplies, the famous brass instruments, and other containers.

It is utterly insane to react this way to seeing a container. In a sane society, we would not act that way for the sighting of a rifle, shotgun, or pistol carried in a non-threatening manner. In New York City, in the 1950's, people routinely rode the subway with rifles and shotguns without any panic.

This is the result of brainwashing.  We are raising a number of hoplophobes. But they are very selective hoblophobes. If the gunman is wearing a uniform, they are immediately perceived as non-threatening.  Perhaps the most "successful" mass shooter of all time put on a uniform to kill 77 people in 2011 in Norway.

We need more than just concealed carry on campus. This incident shows that we need open carry on campus. A dose of reality is required to undo this psychological conditioning.


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[BBell]

I did not realize that we had old white guys rapping back then. I thought it was a young black thing.

[archy]

What will they shut down campus over next? Violin cases?

pizza boxes....

[archy]

Back when I ran an armored car service, I sometimes ran *chase car* escorts, using my 1965 Corvair [good traction with the engine in back, and at least some rear flank protection.] My little .45 Ingram M10 usually lived in the glove box, but when it had to go outside with me [usually multimillion dollar pharmaceutical deliveries; sometimes *jewelry jobs] it did so inside a $3.00 tin workman's lunchbucket.

In later days when I was working an even more potentially sporty job and I wasn't driving, a cutdown folding-stock 12-gauge shotgun or M79 grenade launcher accompanied me in a tennis racket bag.

Nowadays things are somewhat slower for me. But Idaho's not far from my Wyoming homestead, and if I ever need to visit one of their terrorist and criminal appeasing universities, I reckon I'll be okay.

[stylin19a]

rare but defining....St Valentine's Day massacre weapons.



Actual Tommy Guns Used

[marktwain]

Archy, you are always a joy to read!

Love the pic.

[archy]

Archy, you are always a joy to read!

Sometimes I even manage to amuse myself. Not often.

Love the pic.

Why then, here's another! Somebody call the [Idaho university] cops!

[marktwain]

It appears to be a Cavalry Arms lower receiver...

Is is a 1911 in the waist band?

Looks like a Cold Steel in the pocket?

[Lazamataz]

Back when I ran an armored car service, I sometimes ran *chase car* escorts, using my 1965 Corvair [good traction with the engine in back, and at least some rear flank protection.] My little .45 Ingram M10 usually lived in the glove box, but when it had to go outside with me [usually multimillion dollar pharmaceutical deliveries; sometimes *jewelry jobs] it did so inside a $3.00 tin workman's lunchbucket. In later days when I was working an even more potentially sporty job and I wasn't driving, a cutdown folding-stock 12-gauge shotgun or M79 grenade launcher accompanied me in a tennis racket bag. Nowadays things are somewhat slower for me. But Idaho's not far from my Wyoming homestead, and if I ever need to visit one of their terrorist and criminal appeasing universities, I reckon I'll be okay.

Help me set up an Armored Car service.

[Lazamataz]

She’s kinda hot in a convert-her-from-lesbianism way.

[meyer]

A bright pink cue case would probably rank as the worst possible way to carry a firearm if one wanted to use it for nefarious purposes.

[BenLurkin]

Just bring her the right chems, I guess.

[archy]

Help me set up an Armored Car service.

Glad to. The laws have since changed in several of the states in which I operated [IN,KY,TN & MO] both for the good and the bad. I originally set up with a charter as a railway express company, in response to an announced AMTRAK route relocation that never came to pass. Instead, I picked up contracts for moving drug shipments from a nearby Pfizer plant, now relocated offshore.

At that time a Ry Express company could still be chartered in IN at the rate of #10 for each county in which you operated; mine was the last company so chartered before the law was changed, now only gold transportation qualifies for Express Company incorporation in the Hoosier state.

But there are similar vacuums elsewhere, [ see Dave Blatter's obit *here*] and federal law supersedes state regs when the feds take the trouble to enforce it. And some of them are quite useful, particularly when moving deliveries for the FedGov.

And whether you go with the traditional armored box on a truck chassis [*tinbox* in the trade] or *plain wrapper* ex-cop cars or other Kevlar-armored sedans common with those who primarily service ATMs, you'll want to look into joining up with the Independent Armored Car Owners Association.

[Lazamataz]

Hey wait! That sounds like work!

I just want the machine guns.

:)

[archy]

It appears to be a Cavalry Arms lower receiver...

Pretty sure you're right. The original builder was Wayne from AR15Armory, a frequent contributor [and good guy] at AR15.com, aka *ARFcom* before he passed away. He's one of the Absent Comrades now, and is likely packing a similar yellow DeWalt AR in Valhalla; the Vikings said that as long as those still here told tales of a warrior's courage, or happy ways- or stupidity that got him killed- he'd remain in the Long Hall with others of his kind.

The circa-1998 Cav Arms lowers weren't all that loved for being stout, [brittle in cold weather, I snapped a white one in half once] but you could get them in a wild array of colors back around Y2K.

Is is a 1911 in the waist band?

Yep! See following pic, if I got the html right.

Looks like a Cold Steel in the pocket?

Think so. I believe Kate replaced it with an Ernie Emerson CQB folder a Christmas or two later. I like girls who prefer knives to other jewelry.

[archy]

She’s kinda hot in a convert-her-from-lesbianism way.

[archy]

Hey wait! That sounds like work!

Yep. In the rain, snow, sleet, amazingly high winds [once cleared out the vaults of 2 banks hit by a Midwestern tornado, TWO tin cans and 3 chase cars on that one] and floods. And more paperwork than your body weight.

I just want the machine guns.

Depending on where you live, there are a lot of ways that are a LOT easier and a whole LOT cheaper. A $30 C&R FFL dealers license lets you deal in *collectable* MGs that are over 50 years old...which includes Thompsons and all WWII MGs and SMGs, the early AR15s and XM16s, the H&K MP5 [1964] and early Gordon Ingram designs and prototypes, including the M6 and M10 [also begun in 1964.]

:)

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