Maybe it was Mark Levin taking his radio show back from the kid who hosted it the last couple of nights...
win Autographed Copy of Hugh Hewitt's Best Seller
Ping
I was worried. For a moment there I thought it was an assault weapon.
Why ... why ... the guy could'a off'ed the entire city with one of them!
"loaded, bolt-action military rifle" - This description is more than a bit curious to the informed observer. It would be interesting to know precisely what rifle this was and how it was setup. Based on experience (e.g. the UT Tower sniper Charles Whitman killed 13 and wounded many others in 1966) a determined individual with a bolt-action rifle and a good location can do a lot of damage. The US miliary still uses bolt-action rifles (e.g. tuned up Remington 700's in .308/7.62 caliber) as sniper weapons. DO expect the Brady/MMM bunch to campaign against scoped high-power bolt-action rifles as "sniper" weapons in the near future, along with their efforts to ban semi-autos. Schumer, Feinswine and others of that ilk fear that the cross hairs may end up on their center of mass when the peasants decide to vote from the rooftops.
On what charge did they arrest him? Is it illegal to have a rifle inside a building in New York?
I think it would be an interesting experience to see how far and wide you could carry a hard shell rifle case around NYC and other places without being stopped.
How can they distinguish a rifle case from a Fender guitar or bass case? Would you get shot or stopped for a guitar case?
I remember my old rock and roll band days in NYC, nobody ever gave us a second glance except maybe some groupies.
I can see the future when hysterical headlines cry out about "man stopped with dangerous and deadly black powder, single shot assault rifle in the forrest". He was reportedly wearing a coonskin cap.
In other news, a man has been arrested after being caught with a tripod:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1311715/posts
Aiming for Pale Male and Lola?
Someone on the LIVE New Year's Eve thread mentioned this, they must have been watching NY news. I'll try to find it. I read it and went and told my husband but then I hadn't heard it mentioned again (though admittedly I've been away from news).
Found it (pinging oceanview, citing your post):
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1311858/posts?page=196#196
They apparently want us to believe he's a military whacko, out to hunt babies.
"The man", "a man". Well, just who IS this guy, anyway?