Evidence at boat launch of firearms training during refuge standoff

[struggle4progress]

By Maxine Bernstein
on June 10, 2016 at 5:49 PM
updated June 10, 2016 at 6:50 PM

FBI agents found evidence at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge that occupiers used a boat launch area for firearms training, discovering about 1,685 spent shell casings there, according to a new federal complaint.

The government is seeking the civil forfeiture of 50 guns and huge caches of ammunition that federal agents either seized from the refuge after the 41-day occupation or from defendants' cars and homes, the complaint says. Authorities earlier seized 14 other guns in or near the refuge in January.

Defendant Ammon Bundy and supporters took control of the refuge on Jan. 2. The occupation led to the indictment of Bundy and 25 other people on charges of conspiring to impede federal workers from doing their jobs at the federal bird sanctuary in eastern Oregon's Harney County.

The government must file for forfeiture of evidence within 120 days of its seizure. Notices will go out to owners of the weapons, who have the right to challenge the forfeitures ...

http://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-standoff/2016/06/feds_evidence_of_firearms_trai.html

[L. Coyote]

1. People are pleading out,and no doubt giving valuable information implicating others. Domino effect

could bring more charges against others, and sure to help get conviction (as if that were a problem when they film their crimes live on the web).