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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Daniel Arushanov told police he simply wanted to “judge the response time of law enforcement” last week when he carried a holstered handgun, which had one round in the chamber and eight more in the magazine, onto the University of New Mexico campus.

He got his wish when someone called UNM police.

Officers arrived nine minutes later to take him into custody, according to Lt. Tim Stump, a spokesman for the UNM Police Department.

Around 7:30 a.m. on Nov. 9, officers were called to the Student Union Building food court because a man had a handgun on his hip, according to a police report. Although New Mexico allows people to openly carry a firearm, they are prohibited on college campuses.

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When officers arrived, they found 24-year-old Arushanov, with bows in his hair and wearing a tie and an “I voted” sticker, according to the report. A university spokeswoman said he is not a student.

Arushanov was sitting in the food court and not creating a disturbance, Stump said.

Officers handcuffed Arushanov and checked his semiautomatic .40-caliber Smith & Wesson handgun, which was loaded, according to the report. Officers also found that a protection order issued last year in California prohibits Arushanov from possessing a firearm. The order expires in 2020, but it’s unclear why it was issued.

When officers checked Arushanov’s car – which was parked the wrong way in a space for the handicapped – they found a loaded shotgun and a large quantity of ammunition, according to the report. Stump said the large amount of ammunition raised some concerns for police.

“We’ve had incidents where someone has had a firearm on campus before, but this was of a higher magnitude,” Stump said.

Arushanov was charged with unlawful carrying of a deadly weapon on university premises and violation of a restraining order and booked into the county jail. He was released Tuesday. Jail records identify him as Danil Arushanova.

After the incident, university officials emailed a notice to students and staffers to notify them of the incident and tell them that Arushanov has been banned from campus, said Dianne Anderson, a UNM spokeswoman.

She said that although the nature of the incident didn’t fall under federal guidelines mandating that an alert be sent to all students, UNM officials decided they should send out a notification about it.

“There was still some concern,” Anderson said. ” We wanted to show a picture (of him) and let campus know what happened without raising too much alarm.”