ROTC deactivated drill rifle = ASSAULT WEAPON OMG LOCKDOWN...

[Manedwolf]

Oy.

I'm guessing an M1903 Springfield, plugged barrel and all?

"Ammunition cannisters?" Spelled wrong as well. And "a suspect was been detained". Is our students learning? This is a college, isn't it?

Gun scare defused at Cal State Dominguez Hills

Campus placed on lockdown because of reports of a man carrying a rifle. It turns out to be an ROTC student with a nonfunctioning training weapon.
By Susannah Rosenblatt and Andrew Blankstein, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
10:01 AM PST, February 21, 2008
An ROTC student carrying a nonfunctioning rifle on the campus of Cal State Dominguez Hills in Carson prompted a large police response after students reported that they had seen a man carrying what appeared to be an assault rifle on school grounds, authorities said today.

Alarm about a possible gunman at the school lasted for about 45 minutes this morning as school officials went into lockdown and Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies searched for a person matching the description given them by witnesses.

Shortly after 9 a.m., authorities determined that Reserve Officer Training Corps students preparing for a drill had been carrying rifles that pose no threat, sheriff's officials said. Such weapons are real firearms but have been disabled so they can not fire live rounds, said Sgt. Larry Thompson with the Carson sheriff's station.

"ROTC was doing a drill and apparently they didn't notify campus police," said Thompson, who added that one student was detained and questioned, but no arrest was made.

The false alarm "was good training for us," he said.

Of the misunderstanding, Thompson said: "I would hope that if they were smart enough they would notify somebody on campus that they were bringing simulated weapons on campus for training."

An Internet notice announcing that the Carson campus was locked down and classes canceled was quickly replaced by a new notice this morning saying that the campus was reopened.

"It has been determined there is no longer a threat on campus," the notification said.

A news item on the site said "a witness claimed to see a man walking around campus with an automatic weapon and [ammunition] canisteres [sic] around his waist. A suspect was been detained who turned out to be an ROTC student with a drill rifle. The campus was put under lockdown which has since been lifted."

Concern about a possible armed man at the school came after a string of campus shootings nationwide, most recently the deaths of six, including the gunman, at Northern Illinois University near Chicago.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-dominguez22feb22,0,5325738.story

[HankB]

"It has been determined there is no longer a threat on campus," the notification said.

There never was. 

[280plus]

Reminds me of the Army Reserve Lt a few years back, doing some kind of training, running right through town in fatigues carrying his m-16 at port arms. I guess more than a few people called the coppers. Ya think the Army might have warned them...  

 

[280plus]

"It has been determined there is no longer a threat on campus," the notification said.

There never was. 

Don't say that until you've eaten at the cafeteria... 

[Manedwolf]

"It has been determined there is no longer a threat on campus," the notification said.

There never was. 

Don't say that until you've eaten at the cafeteria... 

Can't be worse than UM. They had Marriott catering. Including airline-issue sausages.

[Werewolf]

People and the COPS are so freaking on edge these days about campus shootings that that young man is darned lucky he wasn't shot.

I wonder how the media would have portrayed that?

[coppertales]

It was an assult rifle.................................................................in it's day.........I will take my 1903 and you can have an AK.  We will pace off 500 yards and I will give you the first shot...........chris3

[trapperready]

In other news, police SWAT teams were dispatched to the Armory building on campus, where it was reported that a group of young men in military-style clothing were shouting and moving in a coordinated manner. University student Sally Jenkins stated that "They would move in one direction, then someone would yell and they'd move in another direction. It was really scary. It felt like I was in the Iraq or something. They even had, like, crew cuts and stuff."

[RevDisk]

Reminds me of the Army Reserve Lt a few years back, doing some kind of training, running right through town in fatigues carrying his m-16 at port arms. I guess more than a few people called the coppers. Ya think the Army might have warned them...  

 

I helped out a ROTC program.  We generally notified the campus cops when we practiced 'air assault' missions with Black Hawks or Chinooks from Fort Indiantown Gap.  No fast roping, just landing on the football field or whatnot and securing the LZ.  If we were just toting crew served weapons or M16's, we generally didn't.  Course, their building was a stone's throw down the street, so they were pretty familiar with us.  Our biggest concern were folks interrupting us while walking or training to take photos. 

[ilbob]

whan I was in high school, my jr rotc unit had 100 m14s. selectors and firing pins removed, but otherwise fully functional. we used to drill out on the driver ed field when the weather was nice. otherwise, we drilled on our rifle range, where we were trained to kill with 22LR single shot bolt action assault rifles.

[Chris]

Makes me recall one occassion during my law school days when I heard some noise that struck me as unusual outside of my apartment near campus (the complex property abutted the school property).  I looked out and saw several men in woodland camo with M-16's, covering each other as they moved from cover to cover.  It was dusk.  I turned off the lights, picked up my binoculars, and watched them play.