When I heard about the idiot who went “shopping” at the Springfield, MO Walmart in body armor and carrying two AR-pattern rifles, I was immediately suspicious. It didn’t sound like the usual open-carry activist simply slinging a rifle as he went about his business.

My guess was that he’d turn out to be a left-winger trying to make a statement about how the ready availability of “assault weapons” is dangerous, so we need more gun control.

Today, I saw this report identifying him: Dmitriy Nickolayvich Andreychenko, with two interesting data points.

The first is that he’s charged with “making a terroristic threat in the first degree.”

Open carry is lawful in Missouri. Previous witness reports said he wasn’t doing anything overtly threatening, but was just going through the store with a shopping cart and phone. That doesn’t warrant the charge. If he was an OC demonstrator, I’d expect nothing but a disorderly conduct charge of some sort, and a stern lecture about judgement.

But… if he told cops he was doing as I surmised above — scaring people to make an anti-gun political point — that supports the terroristic threat charge.

The next data point comes at the tail end of the report. He’s from Portland, OR, home of the more virulent Pantifa types.

Heavy.com‘s report of his social media accounts (everything seems to have been scrubbed by the time I looked), does make him sound more like an RKBA type, but I wonder…

A 20 year-old from Portland deliberately doing something that makes honest gun owners look bad, at the worst possible time, charge with 1st degree threatening. Who likes to go masked.

Who do we know who like to do that?

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