Crazed Shopper with Machinegun Caught at North Carolina Mall

By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor:

CNN and other wingnut news outlets ran the story but as usual there are more than a few things wrong with it.  By the way, the photo above has nothing to do with the story, I just like this guy’s hat.  This version is from “The Blaze,” whatever that is:

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (TheBlaze/AP) — A North Carolina mall went into lockdown Thursday evening when an armed man wearing military gear was spotted. This man, authorities said, is a Fort Bragg soldier who was going to have photos taken.

Fayetteville police said 25-year-old Bryan Scott Wolfinger was arrested and charged with “going armed to the terror of the public” in connection with Thursday’s incident at Cross Creek Mall in Fayetteville.

A statement from the Fayetteville Police Department said Wolfinger was preparing to have photographs taken with the military equipment and rifle when 911 calls were received of an armed male at the mall. The public, not knowing the man’s intention, panicked.

“It was really chaotic,” Amirah Williams told WRAL-TV. “It was scary. Nobody ever wants to be in a predicament like that. I was panicking. My friends were panicking. Everyone in the mall was panicking. It was just scary.”

There are more than a few things wrong with this story.  Can I start with “It is perfectly legal to carry a loaded assault rifle almost anywhere you want almost everywhere in the United States.

Only this year I have been upgraded from a limitation of only 30 round magazines to those with up to and over 100 rounds.  Of course, if you wish, you could always have carried more than one weapon or dozens of magazines.  There are other limitations.  Here, I am limited in my concealed carry gun to weapons under 10 inches in length.  I own several 8 inch plus barreled weapons, some revolvers, some semi-automatic in calibers from .357 magnum  to .458 SOCOM and everything in between.

These I am required to carry openly and can do so with no permit of any kind, no limitations of any kind.  So what is the point?

I am of the belief that the vast majority of mass shootings over the past decade all have common components, outlined with both confusion and carelessness by the alternative media but largely correct all the same, are staged false flag events.  The next time I stare at the same dull lifeless eyes and hear how the police arrived 45 minutes later I am going to scream, petty much like I screamed the last time and the time before.

Here in Ohio I have been told that 800,000 people have concealed carry permits.  What few know is that in 42 states, open carry of assault weapons or anything else has been legal for a long time.  You can carry a .45 cowboy revolver just like Jesse James and, personally I would rather people openly carried heavy and very visible guns than the tiny plastic framed pocket guns sold by the millions to Americans for concealed carry, many of them sold by VT’s Custom Shop.

My Browning HiPower cost more than my motorcycle and, to me anyway, is far more a fashion accessory than a Rolex watch.  Plus, try defending yourself with a Rolex, though James Bond has done so in two separate films, I am told.

So, why the story? Why the arrest?  Police, in this case as far as I know didn’t act insanely only illegally.  They used new GOP guidelines for considering probable cause that clearly violated this man’s 2nd Amendment rights.  He was arrested because people didn’t like him carrying a gun.

Was it because he was in a military uniform?  Was it because he was white?

Was it because his gun wasn’t pink or raspberry?

If you check, you will find that his crime was based not on his own action but because others didn’t like him observing his rights and took offense.  This is perhaps the most slippery slope of all and we are talking North Carolina here where “negroes” hung from trees like ornaments in public view for a century.

Excuse me for doing this but I couldn’t resist and consider this a “weasel words” apology.  North Carolina has great barbecue, some nice scenery and the best shark infested beaches outside Australia.  It is a great place.

Are we supposed to enjoy this theatre?  Is it here so we don’t pay attention to other things like asking for the heads of the officials responsible for planting multiple hijacked nuclear devices under several locations in Lower Manhattan on September 11, 2001?

What do we do to get the lives back for the 6,000 American battle deaths and over 100,000 veterans suicides attributed to the phony staged war on  terror?  With 220,000 Syrian civilians dead at our hands, and there is no question of this, who do they go to for redress?

In a world where people are shot down in the streets all the time by terrified police officers with anger issues, are people who are legally carrying weapons in full view a threat?  Why are Americans ignorant of their rights?  Yes, you can take your shotgun, probably unloaded, in your car, locked or in the trunk, park, take it out and load it and walk down the streets of most communities in America legally.

In most communities you will be shot or arrested simply because it is assumed that because others don’t do it, it is illegal.  Assumptions are also made about your mental condition as well.  What is the answer.

Here is what I would like to see:

• Let’s release this guy and openly chastise everyone involved in charging him with a made up crime that in itself proves we all should be armed.  When you can arrest and imprison people who are not violating the law only because others feel afraid, we have a serious sickness going on.
• The NRA in combination with the controlled media, what a pair they are, should after decades of oversight, sponsor public service announcements about what real gun laws are.  Why hasn’t this been done already?  Why don’t police know gun laws and, I can assure you, police do not know gun laws.
• It is time for gun owners to come out of the closet like gays, get out those frilly holsters and get those cheap plastic guns out of the underwear.
• America is not going to be disarmed.  It is time America began living with its guns, handling them safely, owning them openly and admitting that they exist, not just out of pride of ownership but out of distrust for authority.

Consider this, why are we being told, on an almost daily basis, that our police are violent and out of control?  I don’t find this to be an accurate assessment of police in general but the press, which we all know can’t be trusted at all, is peddling this idea.  They are also vilifying gun ownership as well.

Why is this, who does it serve?

Then again, the controlled alterative press would have us throwing chlorine gas grenades at off duty military, as one radio “round robin” suggested, even giving the instructions in how to make chlorine gas.

Dozens of supposed right wing Christian self proclaimed internet media phenomena spend day and night trying to convince us to hate our military, hate our police and trust in the wealthy and powerful to look out for us.

It isn’t just the military that are our kids, the police are as well.  If we fear them, then we fear what we ourselves have created.

Carrying guns around in holsters or acting like fear crazed Izraylee squatters isn’t enough.  If it is legal to carry an assault rifle and people want to do it, then let it be so.  After all, how many nations have had to look at Americans in their streets carrying guns?  Vietnam?  Panama?  Iraq?  Or, how about ISIS, armed by America and holding 40 million hostage?

I don’t fear armed American civilians.  Gun ownership is a civil responsibility and in nations like Switzerland, a civic duty.  Would a hundred million Americans carrying military grade assault weapons on their daily jaunts send a message?

Yes, it may well signal to some that Americans are crazy but then again, do we care what others say?  What is that nation that we look to for approval anyway?  Canada?  Australia?

It is time we learned the law, took advantage of it and protected the last of our rights, perhaps the most important, in those states where that is possible still.

There is no question that in 2000, there was a coup d etat by an oligarchical group of international criminals against the United States.  Almost immediately war was declared on the constitution and huge new police state bureaucracies were created.  The most draconian surveillance state imagined began there and is still alive and  well.

This must come to an end.  I really believe that only by securing and practicing our rights to collectively oppose illegal actions can we protect ourselves.  Many refuse to recognize how much better things have gotten under President Obama or that it was Bush and his cronies that began this war against the American people.

That can be worked out later, like when we get a free press.  We are working on that at VT now.

In the interim, if we lose our guns, we will never get them back.  We can make gun owners politically aware or even sensible but then again, if all Americans reassess their gun rights, then all Americans can and should be responsible gun owners.  The fear isn’t crime or martial law, the fear is losing a right that we all know will eventually lead to our enslavement.

Nobody doubts that, it is clear as day to all of us.

I don’t think we have a choice and I am a liberal democrat.

An afterthought:

Look at the politicians who talk about supporting gun rights. Oh, they all hunt or claim they do.  Most of you out there who aren’t defense contractors or international bankers have never been on the kind of hunts Supreme Court justices and Senators go on.

You know, back so long ago, Solzhenitsyn wrote a about the Gulag Archipelago, the system of prison camps inside the Soviet Union that existed as private islands.

Private hunting reserves, around the world, exist much the same way.  Want to shoot a giraffe?  Got the money?  Oil company lawyers kill more giraffes than lions do by far.  They kill hippos.  Supreme Court justices gun down rare black rhinos and the last of our elephants.  Go to their homes, you will enjoy seeing the illegal ivory brought into the US in the diplomatic container.

Sometimes it is congressional and Bureau of Federal Prisons  interns, some “catch and release,” some kill and dump in Rock Creek Park.

What you won’t see is your typical DC fatass with the weapon they carried in Vietnam or some other war.  You won’t see them with a reloading bench or swapping parts at a gun show.

When they are on their little “hunts,” they could just as easily be shooting you.  It is a reasonable guess that many, not all, might well prefer it, as long as you were chained down first.

Gordon Duff

Gordon Duff posted articles on VT from 2008 to 2022. He is a Marine combat veteran of the Vietnam War. A disabled veteran, he worked on veterans and POW issues for decades.

Gordon is an accredited diplomat and is generally accepted as one of the top global intelligence specialists. He manages the world’s largest private intelligence organization and regularly consults with governments challenged by security issues.

Duff has traveled extensively, is published around the world, and is a regular guest on TV and radio in more than “several” countries. He is also a trained chef, wine enthusiast, avid motorcyclist, and gunsmith specializing in historical weapons and restoration. Business experience and interests are in energy and defense technology.

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