I for one don't care if we think the man was stupid in how he stored HIS guns in HIS home. But I'm not willing to assume that this situations proves gun critics right about gun-owners and the 2nd Amendment. If anything it confirms in my mind that the 2nd Amendment is in serious jeopardy that they can so easily remove all of this from his home after, as I said earlier, who knows what the Chief and off-duty officer said (beyond 'you must leave your home now').
So, you think there's anything the Chief could have said that would have justified the guy pointing a weapon at him? For exactly what in the hell could the homeowner be "defending" his burning house from the Fire Department for crying out loud? Use your common sense here.
Regardless of how the media is overblowing his gun collection, the real issue here is the homeowner's refusal to leave the premises and his threat to the Fire Chief. If he had left when he was told to by the Fire Chief, and assuming he would have told the firefighters he had loaded weapons on the premises and no firefighters were injured by the loaded (and legally owned) weapons going off in the fire, this wouldn't even be a story and none of us would have heard about it.