Guns are a lot more accepted in the us and its unlikely that a UK site would have any armed guards - places like Sellafield and other nuke sites do, but you wou

Guns are a lot more accepted in the us and its unlikely that a UK site would have any armed guards - places like Sellafield and other nuke sites do, but you would have an order of magnitude of difference in the sort of organisations that do hardcore (red) pentesting But it does seem that the Sheriff is acting out the stereotype of the local and incompetent sheriff ala J.W. Pepper in the bond films.