Guy Reffitt faces a new gun charge in connection with the Capitol attack.
A grand jury has invoked a rarely used federal statute to indict a Capitol defendant who repeatedly admitted transporting a weapon across state lines ahead of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. The D.C. federal grand jury, in a superseding indictment returned Wednesday and unsealed Thursday, charged Guy Reffitt of Texas with transporting “a rifle and a semi-automatic handgun, knowing and having reason to know and intending that the firearm will be used unlawfully in furtherance of a civil disorder.”
Reffitt is the first Capitol defendant indicted under the firearm component of the civil disorder statute, according to a law enforcement official. That civil disorder statute wasas part of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, championed by segregationist lawmakers intent on targeting Black activists.
Reffitt was originally arrested on Jan. 18. His son, who had contacted the FBI about two weeks before the Jan. 6 riot, told the feds that Reffitt made threatening statements. He was ordered held until trial., bragged that the group could have taken over the U.S. Capitol if they had wanted to, and was recorded telling his son that he did bring a weapon onto Capitol grounds.better get a bigger damn gun“I had my Spartan Armor plates, my kidney plates, and my .
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