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I wonder if the "Green Beret" manager is off the hook since a judge declared the Stolen Valor act unconstitutional?

There sure is a conflict in the reports as noted on the earlier thread. An elderly shopper reports the dead man as checking to see how many water bottles would fit in a pack while "a manager" is breathlessly telling dispatch "there's a nutcase with a gun high on something trashing the store."

Also a disconnect with several reports where he was asked about the gun by an employee. When he said he had a permit the employee stated permit didn't work in there and was asked to leave.

If someone at Costco, perhaps the "allegedly gun-toting Green Beanie manager", hyped up the description of event so the responding officers really expected a raving lunatic instead of there's a guy with a gun and we're not sure he's allowed to have it and we're too scared to ask.

One thing anyone who is legally armed has to remember that in any interaction with the police it is really good sense to do what your state laws require as to identifying yourself and your armed status.

When needed, I simply inform the officer I am legally armed and what would he like for me to do to keep from scaring him into shooting me. Normally, he chuckles and tells me he won't show me his if I don't show him mine. Then most of my encounters with the police are professional and not as result of someone deliberately feeding them misinformation so they arrive on the scene "spring-loaded" for a shootout.