On another point, some people on this board apparently think that it is bad form to impolitely assert ones constitutional rights and to engage in the tactics of confrontation in order to advance conservative causes. Those people apparently have not been paying attention for the last 40 to 50 years with regard to how the left has successfully used such tactics to advance their various causes.
You’re right friend. I was thinking perhaps they were AR 15s or similar, that’s the way I read it but you are correct, the press can overstate the situation.