Man shops at Utah J.C. Penney while carrying ‘assault rifle’
And yet they wonder why we call them ‘gun nuts’.
According to ABC4.com this picture was taken Wednesday about four hours after President Obama called for a renewed ban on assault weapons:
From RS:
A man in Riverdale, Utah walked into a local JCPenney department store this week armed to the teeth, carrying a holstered handgun, a semi-automatic assault rifle and extra clips on his belt.
The strange display of firepower was enough to draw a scene, with bystanders taking photos and making concerned comments to one another. Images of the man published to Facebook caused a stir in the community.
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Utah state law, however, says the man’s actions are legal, provided the weapons were unloaded. The man was not positively identified, and JCPenney’s public relations team did not respond to a request for comment.
The assault rifle he was carrying was an AR-15, the same firearms platform used to kill 27 people in Newtown, Connecticut in December.
If his name was ‘Abdul Aleem Raashid’ no doubt a SWAT would have been called as precaution.
