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Shoppers at NY mall mistake umbrella for AR-15 rifle, prompting chaos and police lockdown
New York Post ^ | 8/31/25 | Ariel Zilber

Posted on 08/31/2025 4:24:32 PM PDT by CFW

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To: Disambiguator

“Most NYers are obviously extremely ignorant about firearms.”

And most people posting on FR are extremely ignorant about New York State, its geography, and its population.


61 posted on 08/31/2025 5:44:50 PM PDT by Nik Naym (It's not my fault... I have compulsive smart-ass disorder. )
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To: CFW

A sworded affair.


62 posted on 08/31/2025 5:47:54 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: Nik Naym

I was referring to NYC. I am familiar with upstate NY.


63 posted on 08/31/2025 5:48:43 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: frank ballenger

There is indeed a meme for everything...:)


64 posted on 08/31/2025 5:49:03 PM PDT by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est.)
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To: PAR35

Heh. There are several ways one could interpret your remark.
I’m probably overthinking it.


65 posted on 08/31/2025 5:50:26 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: CFW

66 posted on 08/31/2025 5:54:22 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: CFW

America is stuffed to the top with hysterical morons.


67 posted on 08/31/2025 6:08:18 PM PDT by dljordan (The Rewards of Tolerance are Treachery and Betrayal)
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To: CFW

It could just as accurately be called an “assault rifle” as an AR-15 could. It is black and “scary looking”. Think of all the accessories it can hold..


68 posted on 08/31/2025 6:21:41 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Nullius in verba)
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To: jimtorr
The same sort of thing happened at a building I used to work at, as inside security.

When I was working a Hanscom AFB as a contractor, someone set up a machine gun in a conference room in the floor below us. For a class. Apparently security didn't get the memo, and we had an active shooter in the building alert. We closed and locked the doors, and herded the wymin folk to rear and away from windows. (They didn't complain.) We were minimizing the whole farce. Then we got an all clear.

The incident made the local news in Boston, and I got to show my wife the building I worked in.

69 posted on 08/31/2025 6:27:57 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Nullius in verba)
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To: CFW

People should learn not to panic at the sight of an armed citizen.


70 posted on 08/31/2025 6:28:59 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

It’s an assault-something! 😛


71 posted on 08/31/2025 6:30:19 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: CFW

What stinking idiots abound in our society today.


72 posted on 08/31/2025 6:33:17 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus….)
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To: CFW

When umbrellas are outlawed, only outlaws will have umbrellas.


73 posted on 08/31/2025 6:33:18 PM PDT by EandH Dad (sleeping giants wake up REALLY grumpy)
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To: CFW

One does not “cock” an AR-15. You pull the charging handle!

And if it’s up by your neck, over the shoulder, you get a nasty hickey.


74 posted on 08/31/2025 6:35:49 PM PDT by MortMan (Charter member of AAAAA - American Association Against Alliteration Abuse)
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To: CFW

Well I guess when one lives in a blue state where the 2nd amendment has been shredded, cops have been defunded, and 3rd criminal gangs and terrorists are waltzing around everywhere leaving law abiding citizen with no way to defend themselves, panic can ensue when an umbrella shows itself or a water pistol.


75 posted on 08/31/2025 6:47:53 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: CFW

Good thing he didn’t try to open it or they would have shot him dead.


76 posted on 08/31/2025 6:54:51 PM PDT by I want the USA back (America is once again GREAT! Blue Lives Matter! White lives matter. )
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To: chajin

The crack security guards probably only heard the second syllable in ‘bumbershoot.”


77 posted on 08/31/2025 6:55:05 PM PDT by FirstFlaBn
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To: Disambiguator
Most NYers are obviously extremely ignorant about firearms.

Most NYers are obviously extremely ignorant.

Fixed it.

78 posted on 08/31/2025 6:56:03 PM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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To: CFW

All these far-left gun-grabbing creeps have people scared crapless. They are liars. Umbrellas in no way resemble and AR-15. I think they look more like a fly rod. These experts are bustin’ my balls.


79 posted on 08/31/2025 6:57:04 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Is this damn country so hard up for Judges that we have to hire Sparkle Sookananan from Trinidad?)
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“The mall reopened after about 45 minutes, but the incident underscored just how tense Americans have become.”

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Tense?

I’m pretty sure that was supposed to come out as how stupid Americans have become.

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80 posted on 08/31/2025 7:09:00 PM PDT by TLI (ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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