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Recursion

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Fri Oct 16, 2015, 01:38 AM Oct 2015

Utah state Capitol evacuated after rifle found in box

Source: Washington Post

Utah police were searching Thursday night for a man who strode into the state Capitol and placed a wreath and a cardboard box containing an unloaded rifle on the floor before leaving the building.

The Salt Lake City building was evacuated shortly after Capitol security officers watching surveillance cameras spotted the man leaving the package Thursday afternoon, state Highway Patrol Trooper Lawrence Hopper said.

The man appeared to be in his mid-20s and was wearing a dark suit and tie. After entering the building, he walked to the center of the main floor underneath the building rotunda and placed the package on the floor with the wreath on top, Hopper said.

He knelt next to the package for a moment and then got up and left the building. He drove off in a white SUV he had parked outside.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/utah-state-capitol-evacuated-after-rifle-found-in-box/2015/10/15/d6b38b0a-73b2-11e5-ba14-318f8e87a2fc_story.html

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Utah state Capitol evacuated after rifle found in box (Original Post) Recursion Oct 2015 OP
Sounds like a protest of some sort. Wreath laying is what one does on a grave. MADem Oct 2015 #1
Or if the gun is a prop for a different reason Recursion Oct 2015 #2
It's just unclear without the note attached--I suspect that explains it all. nt MADem Oct 2015 #3
So, we're allowed to carry loaded guns everywhere, to kill each other... mr goodbeer Oct 2015 #4
Yes snort Oct 2015 #5

MADem

(135,425 posts)
1. Sounds like a protest of some sort. Wreath laying is what one does on a grave.
Fri Oct 16, 2015, 01:45 AM
Oct 2015

Impossible to know if the guy is pro-gun or anti-gun from what is described, there.

 

mr goodbeer

(66 posts)
4. So, we're allowed to carry loaded guns everywhere, to kill each other...
Fri Oct 16, 2015, 08:25 AM
Oct 2015

...but the Fearless Protectors of Our LIBERTY(!!!!!) who refuse to change our fucked-up gun laws get pampered when an unloaded weapon is found near their delicate asses!

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