https://www.jsonline.com/story/comm...-3-knives-mans-underground-bunker/4229410002/
Here is what looks like the original story.
It was an unregistered short barrel shotgun.
Was he a prohibited person ?
Another couple of years and he could have filed an adverse possession claim for the land his homeless encampment was on.
.
4. Who cares if he was a hermit who avoided people.