# Who is the suit wearing, gun wielding BAMF in this iconic image? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 14, 2013, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-suit-wearing-gun-wielding-bamf-in-this-iconic-image/647173 "2013-01-14T15:32:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-suit-wearing-gun-wielding-bamf-in-this-iconic-image/647173/21 "2013-01-15T00:53:26Z")
> [@CheeseDonkey](#): > > Does anyone know who that BAMF with the gun is? His BAMF level is so high it makes me feel like a BAMF and it makes me want to punch a hole in the wall or do something involving lots of testosterone. > [@Furious\_Marmot](#): > > Also, is BAMF some new thing the kids are saying these days? > [@Sicks\_Ate](#): > > BAMF is old, I heard it back in the 1900’s. > [@Floater](#): > > I didn’t. What does it mean? > [@Sicks\_Ate](#): > > Bad > Ass > Mother > Fucker Huh. I thought it was the noise your fist makes when you punch a hole in the wall. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-suit-wearing-gun-wielding-bamf-in-this-iconic-image/647173/22 "2013-01-15T01:46:01Z")
> [@Leo\_Bloom](#): > > 😕 You don’t have to spoil the joke if you don’t want to. I just don’t want to be the only one with a frozen smile on my face. [Yenko](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yenko_Camaro) ---
**Author:** ![Fubaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@Fubaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fubaya)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-suit-wearing-gun-wielding-bamf-in-this-iconic-image/647173/23 "2013-01-15T01:51:40Z")
> [@Uber\_the\_Goober](#): > > From whence does this nugget of fact-resembling information come? You can see him in some of the videos fiddling with it off and on from the time he takes it out of the briefcase until they attempt to move Hinckley to the cop car (the one they couldn’t get the door open on). Pretty much his entire time on scene. He was doing other things too, yelling and taking care of whatever badasses take care of, but he kept returning to that stock when he got a chance. I’m not sure if he ever got it straightened out. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-suit-wearing-gun-wielding-bamf-in-this-iconic-image/647173/24 "2013-01-15T05:12:46Z")
Could you cite a clip or other media that shows him removing the weapon from a briefcase? I thought he had pulled it somehow from his jacket. Looks like I’m batting 0 for 2 here. ---
**Author:** ![Uber\_the\_Goober](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/58956e/32.png) [@Uber\_the\_Goober](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uber_the_Goober)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-suit-wearing-gun-wielding-bamf-in-this-iconic-image/647173/25 "2013-01-15T05:31:08Z")
> [@Fubaya](#): > > You can see him in some of the videos 😉 😉 :nudge: :nudge: This mayhaps is the source of your fact-resembling information? These “videos”? Cuz…I’d like to see such an expression of early 80’s but clearly-leftover-from-the-70’s badassery in action. ---
**Author:** ![Fubaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@Fubaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fubaya)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-suit-wearing-gun-wielding-bamf-in-this-iconic-image/647173/26 "2013-01-15T06:38:07Z")
> [@Leo\_Bloom](#): > > Could you cite a clip or other media that shows him removing the weapon from a briefcase? I thought he had pulled it somehow from his jacket. Looks like I’m batting 0 for 2 here. In the OP’s photo there is a briefcase sitting in the middle of the road and in larger versions you can tell it’s filled with foam cut out in the shape of an Uzi. There was another guy with an Uzi on the other side of the group of people too, so it could be his, but it seems too close to Wanko for it to not be his. [Here](http://www.uzitalk.com/forums/showthread.php?59872-I-didn-t-know-the-secret-service-used-uzis-%28picture%29&) is a thread on an Uzi forum with great, but unconfirmed, info. Among other things, post 12 shows the briefcase, 17 says they designed a carry method inside the jacket after this, and 51 identifies the other Uzi toting agent as Richard Tobin. Lots of fun in between those posts too. ---
**Author:** ![standingwave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-suit-wearing-gun-wielding-bamf-in-this-iconic-image/647173/27 "2013-01-15T07:06:57Z")
> [@Fubaya](#): > > In the OP’s photo there is a briefcase sitting in the middle of the road and in larger versions you can tell it’s filled with foam cut out in the shape of an Uzi. There was another guy with an Uzi on the other side of the group of people too, so it could be his, but it seems too close to Wanko for it to not be his. Yep. Higher resolution image [here](http://greenshines.com/content/blog/1844-atentado-ronald-reagan/Photograph_of_chaos_outside_the_Washington_Hilton_Hotel_after_the_assassination_attempt_on_President_Reagan_-_NARA_-_198514.jpeg). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-suit-wearing-gun-wielding-bamf-in-this-iconic-image/647173.md?page=1)