Seth Newman, who has confessed to being the unconvincing glue-whiskered cop who prompted a four-hour lockdown Tuesday at the University of Richmond* had considered previously his right to openly carry a weapon.

Today’s Richmond Times-dispatch, reporting on the 19 year-old fantasy-fan’s confession to police, notes

Seth Newman asked an online legal service last summer,

“Are there any laws in Virginia regarding carrying around a sword?

“If I were to walk around in the streets with it would I have to keep it in its scabbard?

Well, maybe he shouldn’t be carrying his sword around, out of the scabbard, in the public ways. But it doesn’t necessarily follow it has to stay in the closet forever.

During a warrant search of his home, Police also confiscated (per the affidavit) Newman’s ID, insulin syringes, cameras, film, a plastic bag for a holster and “make-up removing” towelettes.

*A library employee told police that a male in a fake beard and sheriff’s jacket stated to her that he was a police officer and that he had heard that people were fornicating in the library and that he needed to spend the night.