Charles Robinson and Jason Cole of Yahoo! Sports report that specific incident that triggered Lloyd Lake’s decision to put a halt to his sworn deposition was the revelation that the man hired to provide security for Bush and his lawyers was packing heat.

Specifically, the man opened his jacket at one point, exposing a gun.  In response, the deposition ended.

“I’m stunned by their conduct,” said Paul Wong, one of Lake’s attorneys.  “We take this matter very seriously.  You shouldn’t be able to bring a gun to a deposition and threaten people.  We don’t even allow police officers to bring their guns to their own depositions.

“If they were afraid for any reason or concerned about security, they should have raised that or notified the court in advance, and they didn’t.  We could have done the deposition in the courtroom if they were worried about security.”

As we explained earlier in the day, we believe that Bush’s legal team should have raised this issue in advance of the deposition.

But we also think that Lake shouldn’t have left without trying to call the judge assigned to the case for a ruling.