Man With Assault Rifle Tries To Confront Wisconsin Gov

The Huffington Post reports:

A man illegally brought a handgun into the Wisconsin Capitol on Wednesday, demanding to see Gov. Tony Evers, and returned at night with an assault rifle after posting bail, a spokesperson for the state said. The man, who was shirtless and had a holstered handgun, approached the governor’s office on the first floor of the Capitol around 2 p.m. on Wednesday, state Department of Administration spokesperson Tatyana Warrick said Thursday.

The man was demanding to see the governor, who was not in the building at the time, Warrick said. The man was booked into the Dane Count Jail but later posted bail. He returned to the outside of the Capitol shortly before 9 p.m. with an assault-style rifle, Warrick said. Evers, a Democrat, was on a hit list of a gunman suspected of fatally shooting a retired county judge at his Wisconsin home in 2022.

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