On Saturday night, police arrested and charged a teenager for bringing two musket rifles into UT’s Laurel Hall, according to WVLT.
Laurel Hall staff members reported seeing someone walking through the building with what they thought was a musket. Officers identified Brandon Dowd, 19, through video surveillance. They spoke with him in the Laurel Hall lobby, where he said the musket was in his tenth floor dorm room.
After officers found two musket rifles, black powder, primers and two bayonets in the room, Dowd was arrested and charged with carrying a weapon on school property.
Dowd, a freshman sociology major, told The Daily Beacon that he uses the rifles for Civil War reenactments and that he had brought the rifles into Laurel on several occasions before.
