Maurice and his "assault weapon"

The dude has been trouble from the start. Yesterday he got caught near the home of a girl who's getting ready to testify against him with 4 loaded guns in the car. For the rest of his saga leading up to this point, check out the story. He's a lowlife.

But that's not what I wanted to talk about. I just wanted to point out a few things about the story:

First, he is said to have been "carrying an arsenal that included three semi-automatic handguns and an AK-47-type assault rifle in the front seat - all loaded." Almost all handguns are functionally "semi-automatic" and I wouldn't trust the author to know the difference. The word is just used because it's scary, which brings us to the term "AK-47-type assault rifle". Again, I doubt the author knows that an "assault rifle" is a machine gun and that there's no way Maurice could get one legally. As a matter of fact, I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that he didn't have any of the guns legally.

Enough of that. Here's the one quote from the LEO that really annoyed me:

"But if you've got four guns in your car you're up to no good."

How many of us have ever had four guns in our car? It's eerily reminiscent of Blago's statement about gun owners in Chicago:

"A guy in my neighborhood with a gun, that's a gang-banger, and he ain't hunting deer or quail. That guy's up to no good. "

Is that kind of bias any different than racism?