Texas law firm fires employee for posting ominous 'gun threat' against businesses that make him wear a face mask

A Dallas-based law firm has fired an employee after he posted an apparent gun threat on Facebook targeting local businesses that make patrons wear face masks.

The screed that appeared on Kevin Bain's now-defunct Facebook account last week read: 'No more masks. Any business that tells me to put on a mask (Whole Foods on Lomo Alto) in Dallas will get told to kiss my Corona a** and will lose my business forever. 

'It's time to stop this BULLS***. Do I have to show the lame security guard outside of a ghetto store my CV19 test results? I will show him my Glock 21 shooting range results. With Hornady hollow points. Rpicey ammo, but worth it in this situation. They have reached the limit. I have more power than they do.....they just don't know it yet.'

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Swift justice: Kevin Bain, 52, was fired by the Dallas-based law firm Thompson and Knight after making an apparent gun threat against businesses that make patrons wear face masks 

Bain's employer, Thompson & Knight, released a statement last Friday addressing the administrative manager's outburst, which the firm called 'threatening and offensive,' and announcing his termination.

'This post is a complete violation of the values of our Firm, including our commitment to the health and safety of the communities we serve,' the statement read. 

Bain was let go last week after more than a decade working for the large law firm as an administrative manager 

'We have terminated this individual’s employment and notified the proper authorities about the post as a precaution. We are deeply sorry for this situation. This type of post is not and never will be tolerated by our Firm.'

A graduate of Abilene Christian University with a degree in business, Bain, 52, had worked as a document services manager at Thompson and Knight's Dallas office.

The firm, founded in 1887, currently employees more than 300 attorneys in its Texas and New York offices. 

Police in the tony Dallas suburb of Highland Park, where the Whole Foods store referenced in Bain's post is located, told the Dallas Morning News on Monday that they are 'looking into' the alleged threat.  

According to his now-deleted LinkedIn page, Bain had worked for 12 years for the New York-based law firm Thacher Proffitt & Wood as a word processing manager, before joining Thompson and Knight in 2009.