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...Shea quickly recalled that Moore had a gun. She had gratuitously offered to help "set up" the man who had sold it to her, Mark Fernwood, 29, leader of the John Birch Society chapter in nearby Danville, Calif., for a possible arrest on illegal gun sales. San Francisco police had also informed the Treasury Department's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) of Moore's allegations about her gun purchase. O'Shea told Moore she could indeed be arrested if she carried a concealed weapon...
Alarmed after Moore hung up, O'Shea called the FBI. He related the conversation, described Moore, reported the license number of her 1970 tan Toyota, and expressed his concern that she might be dangerous to the President. The FBI assured him that it would notify the Secret Service. When a Secret Service agent called him Saturday evening, O'Shea reported Moore's cryptic remarks about going to Stanford...
Still worried, O'Shea called the Secret Service again on Sunday morning, asking whether agents wanted Moore picked up. Prudently, they said it "might be a good idea." At the time, however, Moore was pursuing her voluntary undercover work. She was in Danville visiting Fernwood's home gun shop, where he makes replicas of antique weapons for sale. Ostensibly, she had gone there to get in some target practice with Fernwood. Actually, she had taken along an ATF man whom she introduced only as "Chuck...
...time Moore arrived back at her rundown two-story apartment building in San Francisco's multiracial Mission District at about 2:30 p.m., two police officers, at O'Shea's suggestion, were waiting for her. "Do you have a gun?" one of them asked. "Yes, in my purse," said the unsurprised Moore...
...federal agents wanted her detained. "They said it won't be necessary, that they'd go talk to her," a senior San Francisco police officer reported. So Moore was released at 4 p.m. ?about the time Ford was to speak 30 miles away. Immediately, she called O'Shea to complain: "You did that to keep me away from Stanford...