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No, but he shouldn't have been arrested and charged, either.
The article says the guy complied with officer instructions. There's a solution here that doesn't ruin his name for the rest of his life, even if they can't prove intent to commit a felony.
I don't see where they have reasonable grounds to arrest and charge him. Everything he did was perfectly legal. Your stance is a subjective one, which shouldn't have any place in law. From a legal perspective, this looks like arresting and charging any person carrying a gun, based solely on the fact that they were carrying a gun.
He complied because he had a rifle pointed at him by a cop. You don’t know nearly enough to say he did nothing illegal. Planning to shoot up a supermarket and getting that far into the plan is illegal, for good reason.