The fact that it went so hard, so fast, with no escalation and pictures stolen ready to go for the posts makes it seem like a malicious actor wanted investigative crumb trails to lead to the guy who posted the picture of the gun so it could cause even more confusion.
I guess a great thing to keep track of now would be to see if this happens on other instances, but I can’t imagine why they’d choose Chudbuds. Unless of course, they’re a user who got yeeted. Really stupid game to be playing just because they got the broom.