GILBERTON -- Potty-mouthed, video-making, gun-shooting police Chief Mark Kessler will be back patrolling the streets of this Schuylkill County coal town in 30 days. This after the Gilberton Borough Council voted 5-1 tonight to suspend him without pay for his profanity laced appearance in YouTube videos shooting off guns belonging to the borough.

"I make no apologies," Kessler said, as gun rights activists from multiple states showed up in support, with all manner of firearms strapped to their belts and hanging from their shoulders.

"I have no regrets," added Kessler, flanked by his attorney, Joseph Nahas, who reiterated that the chief would be back "30 days from tonight."

Technically, the borough didn't suspend Kessler for his profanity laced diatribes supporting the Second Amendment and verbally blasting the likes of Secretary of State John Kerry and Democratic House minority leader Nancy Pelosi.

Instead, Kessler was disciplined for using borough property -- the semiautomatic and automatic weapons he is seen shooting in the videos -- without borough permission.

Borough officials have said that those weapons were purchased by Kessler and donated to the borough police department -- a donation the borough council accepted by official action.

Kessler said tonight that he also had donated the ammunition that he used in the videos to the borough.

Gilberton Mayor Mary Lou Hannon, who participated in the hour-long executive session in which the council debated Kessler's fate, compared the infraction to a borough employee using a Gilberton lawn mower to cut their grass at home.

"It was just the misuse of borough property," Hannon said after the meeting. She does not have a vote on the council, however.

Still, there was no denying the adverse publicity and media scrutiny that the 700-resident borough has received since Kessler's videos went viral last week.

"I think it's a blackened our eye a little," Hannon said. "But we are a strong community. I feel I am a strong leader, and we will go on from here."

For tonight's meeting, about 30 members of the press descended on the small borough building that doubles as the sewer plant, with the foul odors to prove it.

But both media members and Gilberton residents were out-numbered by the gun-toting 2nd Amendment rights activist who flocked in support of Kessler. Some of the heavily armed men acted as security for the meeting -- and for Kessler. Some barred entrance to the borough building at the start of the public meeting. Mayor Hannon hand-selected members of the media to be admitted. Gilberton residents were given first preference to get in.

Thanks to the chief's profanity laced, politically caustic and Second Amendment and Constitution-loving YouTube videos, he has become something of the Internet sensation of the moment, at least in pro-gun circles. In turn, he has been a lightning rod for criticism for his targeting of Democrats and his seemingly raucous shooting sprees of automatic or semiautomatic weapons in the videos.

Even in this hard-hewn, God-fearing, gun-toting Anthracite coal region in Schuylkill County, some think Kessler has gone too far.

In one of the videos, Kessler, 41, complains colorfully – and with some vulgarity -- about the United Nations and the Secretary of State. In another, Kessler, sporting his badge, appears to school the viewer on the basics of shooting a gun. But for his target, the controversial chief selects a picture of a clown that he refers to as House Minority Leader Pelosi, D-Calif.

Yet, the video that generated the most media controversy was a supposed “apology” for the Kerry video. Taken on an old strip mine road, Kessler is seen shooting selective-fire weapons, which have automatic and semiautomatic options.

In wake of his suspension, Kessler reiterated that his first and only oath is to his country, not to his badge or police uniform. But he stopped short of answering whether he would post anymore videos.

His attorney intervened, cutting off the question from the press and answering for his client: "We have no comment."