[skeptoid]

The semiautomatic in previous ADN coverage has become an assault rifle today.

[Chode]

unnamed rifle, so it wasn't an AK or AR... hummm

[rabidralph]

Yes, but was it black?

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

The Village Public Safety Officer Program began in the late 1970’s as a means of providing rural Alaskan communities with needed public safety services at the local level.

So they are basically government agents in each town, to insure the locals don’t misbehave. Indian agents.

In 1793 the Second Trade and Intercourse Act authorized the President of the United States to “appoint such persons, from time to time, as temporary agents to reside among the Indians,” and guide them into forced acculturation of white American society by changing their agricultural practices and domestic activities.

Though this latter part is no longer officially included in what they do.

So, in this case, the village PSO decided to hassle the old man about not having a license in rural Alaska, and the old man told him to go to hell, at rifle point. So he calls in the police.