Protest statement: Farr seeks to come armed to Palouse City Council session

Palouse citizen Jim Farr wants to bring a gun to Palouse city council meetings as a visual protest against what he views as incompetent government.

He has yet to apply for a gun permit from the county sheriff’s office, saying there are several issues on his record he must have expunged first.

Farr said several times in an interview with the Gazette Oct. 1 he had no intention of discharging the gun at a meeting but simply wanted to make an overt visual protest against the workings of the city by wearing it.

“I told him [city police chief Jerry Neumann] I intend to make a visual protest by weari...