[Uncle Chip]

The police dispatch does not include semicolons or periods or commas. It came across the aire as "Be advised multiple weapons one rifle and a shotgun". The transcriber is adding the punctuation marks.

The officer is either singling out the rifle and shotgun as part of the "multiple weapons" -- thus the use of the word "multiple" meaning more than two. Or by multiple weapons he means the "handguns".

Either way -- the rifle is identified as being there on the dispatch within 15 minutes.

[saleman]

Boy, I’m telling you it is almost like you were there. I’ll tell you what. Instead of your interpretation and convuluted reasoning behind a simple statement, I’ll just go with the statement as worded, without trying to read into it things that aren’t there.

So, now “multiple” means more than 2 huh? I thought that was several or some such. Maybe he should said “a few”. You know. So i wouldn’t be so confused....