Addendum: Rules he may not have known were in place.
It’s possible they never briefed him on that, all the attention being on the gun, not the camera.
One thing I found out in my past adventures. You do NOT cross people who are in government. The manure WILL devolve on you, if you do. Little Napoleons do not want to risk being dethroned, even by accident and not malice.
I kidded with one fellow about being a “spy” because he always wore a trench coat, which he would frequently don to go outside to smoke a cigeratte. He took it in good humor and laughed. But a government client overheard (it wasn’t my intention to be overheard) and this was one at a lower level of government that feared being the subject of a sting. Complained to my boss. My boss got nervous. I don’t wish to say more. (Not my current job, which is in the private sphere and much, much better.)