Mannequin Challenge: Cops Bust Gun-Wielding Bad Guys from Viral Video

By Tactical-Life

The mannequin challenge may be all the rage these days, but a group of armed men are rueing the day they decided to get in on the latest internet craze, which involves videos of people frozen in mid-action like mannequins while music blares in the background.

One mannequin challenge video, recorded in Huntsville, Ala., shows 22 men holding at least 19 different guns and has been shared more than 85,000 times since it was posted to Facebook on Nov. 9.

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The clip naturally caught the attention of the Madison County Sheriff’s Office.

“You have a lot of people with firearms at one address,” Madison County Sheriff’s Office Capt. Mike Salomonsky told WHNT 19 News. “And you have to ask yourself the question, ‘Why?’ and the second question you have to ask yourself: is it a public safety issue?”

Eventually, a search warrant was obtained for the house.

“At 5:02 this morning,” Capt. Mike Salomonsky said in a press conference Tuesday, “The Madison County Sheriff’s Office SWAT team, the City of Huntsville Police Department SWAT team, and also ATF were present when we executed the search warrant at that residence.”

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Source:: Tactical Life