Photos of man with rifle in Utah J.C. Penney store go viral
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Jan. 13, 2013: This cell phone photo provided by Cindy Yorgason shows a JC Penney shopper with an assault rifle over his shoulder in Riverdale, Utah. (AP)
Hours after President Barack Obama called on Congress to ban military-style assault weapons, one man's protest raised some eyebrows at a Utah store.
An Odgen woman took some photos of a man inside a J.C. Penney on Wednesday with an assault weapon slung over his shoulder.
Cindy Yorgason says that even for a firearm-friendly state like Utah, it was out of the ordinary.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Yorgason took two photos of the man and posted them on Facebook, where they received hundreds of comments and have been shared more than a thousand times.
The Salt Lake Tribune identified the man as 22-year-old Joseph Kelley, who says he was trying to demonstrate that the weapons aren't dangerous when handled by law-abiding people.
Kelley says the AR-15 he was carrying was unloaded, which is legal.