“If you leave the site of the Murrah Building at 9:02 a.m. and drove the posted April 1995 speed limit on interstate highways, where would you be at 10:17?”
“It would put me at the same spot of the arrest between Mile Marker 202 and 203,” Hanger testified. In other words, if McVeigh had set off the bomb and then driven north at the speed limit, he would have been exactly where Hanger found him on April 19.
The story of Hanger’s arrest of McVeigh had a revealing postscript. Though McVeigh remains a reviled figure in Oklahoma, his views about the Second Amendment have been ascendant in that politically conservative state. In 2019, the state changed its laws to allow individuals twenty-one and older to carry guns without permits. If Hanger had stopped McVeigh under the new law, he could not have arrested him, because he was now allowed to carry his gun. All Hanger could have done was give McVeigh a ticket.
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