Just days after the Boulder mass shooting, a Denver man was pulled over in Nebraska...

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11. Something is fishy here.

They let him keep his guns? On what is that conclusion based? Police don't return guns to people who are released on bail for gun charges. They just don't.

The only place that I can find the phrase "heavily armed and agitated" is in an AP story, and it's not attributed to a store employee or anyone else by the writer of the story, AP's Ryan J. Foley. Foley further states that Vannoy posted an Instagram video about purchasing firearms at Brownell's in Grinnell, Iowa, but the actual video show his purchases as gun parts, accessories, and ammunition. A "Glock 80% lower" is a pistol frame, not a pistol.

It isn't clear that he was armed at the other store, where he tried to purchase the AR-15. If he was, it could have been with other weapons he had owned prior to the incident. It seems more likely that he was trying to replace the weapons that had been confiscated. The store owners did exactly what they're supposed to do, and now he has Federal charges in addition to state. I'm guessing that the Federal charges resulted from his lying on the background check form, which has questions about arrest history and drug use.

Sloppy journalism all around, I'm afraid.