Not in today’s DOJ/NYC political games.
They were probably trailed BACK from the rural/subusrb area where they were hunting/shooting beer bottles/iron targets at long range ... THEN “arrested” as soon as they crossed the “white line” into NYC.
Today’s FBI/DOJ/White House NEEDS a “redneck white male” to be arrested on gun charges IMMEDIATELY ... If they were Muslim, they would have been escorted across.
Heck, if they were Muslim, they would have not been stopped at all.
Desperately. And preferably multiple parties (drugged up psychotic "loners" being groomed as we speak.)
The article is pretty vague. But before they were arrested they were stopped legitimately and even innocent things can go downhill from there. Doesn't say LE had a dog but the search revealed drugs and that may have been the basis for the out-of-state surveillance, or perhaps that many weapons were just not secured and visible to LE.
LE who talked to the press acted as though they did not know the home location of the suspects (or didn't want to disclose that info) and thus it is possible that one or all of the suspects may have been without ID.