Then somebody smashed the side window of it and police arrived. There were binoculars in the car, and notes of car registration plates and of people coming and leaving. There had also been a camera in the car, that maybe was stolen and maybe not. I couldn't get any information from the police, their computers were down. I was told that the guys in the last car had guns by someone that saw them.
Police are practically the only ones that carry guns, at least visibly.
I imagine that criminals and PIs, even if they have guns, would keep them out of sight. Somebody who should know placed this whole thing in conjunction with a recent big hash seizure, saying that one of the suspects in it lives on my block. Thus, the surveillance could be unconnected to me. It's hard to know. It still could be PIs, and the affair could indicate that I have an unkown friend with a sledgehammer.