[Catspaw]

You missed this part:

When Fire Chief John Feeny ordered Arthur L. Arford to leave his smoky home in a residential area of Colonial Court about 4 p.m. to make way for firefighters, Arford told Feeny the department had no right to force him off his property, said Detective Joseph McGovern.

It was the FIRE CHIEF, not the police chief. Firefighters are unarmed.

[Dead Corpse]

With that many weapons in his home, if he was trying to "raise a weapon" to "attempt to point" it at someone, why would he have not grabbed one that actually had ammunition in it?

I agree with the other posters in that the more likely chain of events had this guy grabbing at the nearest firearm to at least TRY and save something of his collection from the fire.

If you want to swallow the liberal spin in the newspapers, hook, line, and sinker, you may wish to reconsider your contributions here. This is a place for freedom loving conservatives.