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Oath Keepers Leader Rhodes Bought Arsenal of Weapons Just Before Jan. 6 [1]
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Date: 2022-10-17
All Quiet at the Comfort Inn
From The New York Times:
In the days before a pro-Trump mob — including members of his own organization — broke into the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the Oath Keepers militia, went on a cross-country weapon-buying spree. Setting out for Washington from Texas, his home state, Mr. Rhodes stopped at least six times, bank records show, purchasing items like assault-style rifles, ammunition and scopes. Sometimes he dropped into gun shops and sometimes he conducted the transactions in parking lots with private sellers he met online. By the time he reached his destination, prosecutors said on Monday at the trial of Mr. Rhodes and four of his subordinates on seditious conspiracy charges, the Oath Keepers leader had spent as much as $20,000 on what amounted to a small arsenal that included at least three rifles and an Israeli-made semiautomatic shotgun.
www.nytimes.com/…
This is the same guy who was tasked with setting up a “quick reaction force” for the Jan. 6 riots. From a January Huffington Post article:
Part of the Oath Keepers’ conspiracy was standing up “Quick Reaction Forces” (QRFs) just outside of D.C. that were on standby to deliver guns into the capital on Jan. 6. The “base of operations,” according to the indictment, was the Comfort Inn Ballston, where the North Carolina QRF team leader reserved three rooms: one for their North Carolina team, another for the Arizona QRF team, and the third for the Florida QRF team. The indictment alleges they used those rooms to store and guard the firearms, although the four men on the North Carolina QRF team “kept their rifles ready to go in a vehicle parked in the hotel lot” according to a court filing.
www.huffpost.com/…
So it seems we’ve known about caches of weapons for many months, but this is the first we’ve seen of actual receipts and who the literal buyer was.
It is comforting to see how much legal jeopardy Rhodes now appears to be in.
Update 7:46pm — looks like the NYT has even more on Rhodes today:
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