Capitol Insurrectionist Indicted Under Rarely Used Gun Law Written To Target Black Activists

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A Capitol defendant who bragged he had his “.40 on my side” is the first Jan. 6 defendant indicted on a charge that makes it unlawful to transfer a weapon "in furtherance of a civil disorder.”

Capitol Rioter Indicted Under Rarely Used Gun Law Written To Target Black Activists
A federal grand jury charged Guy Reffitt with transporting firearms knowing they'd be used unlawfully "in furtherance of a civil disorder.”
huffpost.com
2:54 PM · Jun 17, 2021

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/guy-reffitt-capitol-riot-gun-charge_n_60cb57f5e4b0b0e834230ff7?ew9

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 was passed as part of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, championed by segregationist lawmakers intent on targeting Black activists. In addition to being used against accused rioters in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd, the civil disorder statute has been used against more than 100 of the nearly 500 defendants charged in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

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.

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[Nevilledog]

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