Via Staten Island Patch:
Staten Island residents began reporting swarms of policemen and traffic barricades posted throughout the borough early Friday afternoon.
And as of 3:40 p.m., an NYPD spokesman confirms that the hubbub is in response to photos sent to the Intelligence Bureau Operations Unit showing a group of men and women carrying what appear to be assault rifles in the Midland Beach parking lot.
UPDATE:
New Jersey license plates A83FCB and PSJ52V.
Update:
From NYPD:
The preliminary opinion of these experts was that the weapons in the pictures strongly resemble replicas of firearms used in “paintball” games. Interviews conducted by NYPD and FBI investigators as part of the Joint Terrorism Task Force in New Jersey have revealed that the registered owner of one of the vehicles indicated that he was planning to go paintball shooting with friends today.
The investigation is continuing.