The Chicago police charged him with the appropriate "concealed carry" and "wrong place" violations, and let him out on bail. The FBI was interested because he had an address in common (apparently an apartment house) with two terrs they have in custody. They have "completely and throughly investigated, and found no connection between Gurung and the terrs". Then, they did an about face (after just enough time for the paperwork to get upstairs) and re-arrested him, charging an attempt to board an airplane with restricted weapons. Looks like the suits wanted an example. The knives in his checked baggage were mentioned (in sinister tones) by the talking heads, as were the viscious lengths (2" to 4"), but were t part of the charges. He had a shopping sack with seven folders, mace, a stun gun and a camera, in his carry-on bag. He explained that in the hurry-up to pack, he forgot to put it in his checked bags in time. Bringing them along in his carry-on was, frankly, dumb, but he gave interviews to local TV, which were replayed, and he looked and sounded plausible - open, naive and very embarrassed, but I'd give him the benefit of the doubt in an interrogation, as far as it went. It appears the street feds thought so too, on their first take.
