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Armed Man at Walmart Testing His Right to Bear Arms

Associated Press

   SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI - Prosecutors on Friday filed a terrorist threat
   charge against a 20-year-old man who said he walked into a Missouri
   store wearing body armor and carrying a loaded rifle and handgun to
   test whether Walmart would honor his constitutional right to bear arms.

   The incident, just days after 22 people were killed during an attack at
   another Walmart in El Paso, Texas, caused a panic at the Springfield,
   Missouri, store. Dmitriy Andreychenko walked through filming himself
   with his cell phone Thursday afternoon.

   No shots were fired and Andreychenko was arrested after he was stopped
   by an armed off-duty firefighter at the store.

   "Missouri protects the right of people to open carry a firearm, but
   that does not allow an individual to act in a reckless and criminal
   manner endangering other citizens,'' Greene County Prosecuting Attorney
   Dan Patterson said in a statement announcing the charge. Patterson
   compared the man's actions to "falsely shouting fire in a theater
   causing a panic."

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