Stun guns, ‘stinger whips’ and a crossbow: What police found on the Capitol protesters

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In all, police recovered a dozen guns and thousands of rounds of ammunition from 7 separate people who were arrested before and after the Capitol riot.

from the Capitol, a police officer stationed nearby spotted a “suspicious male in a white passenger van with red spray paint on the side.” The Ford Econoline 150 had Georgia plates and a red MAGA hat on the dashboard.

Yet the authorities still turned up a wide array of weapons among the tiny slice of protesters who were arrested before and after the Capitol invasion. “The cops weren’t searching people," said former ATF agent Mark Jones, whose 20-year tenure included a stint with the Domestic Terrorism Operations Unit at the FBI Counterterrorism Center.The first weapons were seized long before chaos broke out at the Capitol.

“It was my fault,” Snell said. “I didn’t research it before I came or I wouldn’t have brought fingernail clippers on my key ring. Heck no.” While waiting for medical help, Blair said he was “being an idiot, pumped up and didn’t move back,” the report says. “Accept everything. I’m sorry.”Moore, who was driving the white minivan, was stopped at about 6:20 p.m. A baffling phrase in red spray paint lined the van’s sides and back.When the officer told Moore he was being arrested for carrying an unlicensed gun, he replied: “I don’t have intent,” according to a police report.

When officers gained access to the vehicle, they found an arsenal of weapons: a loaded 9 mm Hi-Point handgun, a loaded Windham Weaponry rifle, a loaded Hatfield Gun Company SAS shotgun, hundreds of rounds of ammunition, a crossbow with bolts, several machetes, camouflage smoke devices and a stun gun, according to a detention memo filed Tuesday.

Coffman lives more than 700 miles away from Washington in the 1,200-person town of Falkville. His ex-wife told theOne of the guns police seized from Lonnie Leroy Coffman.Leslie Grimes and two fellow Antifa members drove to Washington from Michigan to counter demonstrate during the Trump rally. According to one of Grimes’ friends, the group walked around for a while but returned to the car after Grimes got roughed by some Trump supporters.

When asked why they brought a gun to Washington, the friend said that was a question for Grimes. “We tried to talk her out of it,” he said. Alberts, who was also wearing a bulletproof vest and carrying a backpack, tried to flee but was stopped by a group of officers, court papers say. A black Taurus G2C 9 mm handgun was recovered from his right hip. He had a separate magazine on his left hip, the court papers say.Alberts was charged in federal court with possessing a firearm and ammunition on Capitol grounds. He could not be reached and his lawyer did not respond to requests for comment.

 

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And, yet, I keep hearing “caught up in the moment” & “mostly peaceful”. This proves otherwise. nobail CriminalJustice

Who cares. A dozen between 7 people isn’t even noteworthy. “A 6 round magazine” oh my god I go to work everyday with more than that😂.

A dozen guns huh? Trump voters have hundreds of millions of those and 10s of billions of rounds of ammunition. I think this is just more proof that the vast majority of Trump voter aren’t interested in taking up arms right now.

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I think I lost 10 pts off my IQ after reading this. Wtf is going on in the southern states? 👀

Sick individuals.

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