Not one of the arrested people in the capitol building had a firearm.
2 people were arrested for firearms violations but neither were in the building. How was this an armed rebellion?
Why do they have to be in the building, and since when is a firearm the ONLY kind of weapon that ever existed?????
Police have seized an alarming number of guns from President Trump’s supporters who descended on Washington, D.C., last week and stormed the Capitol in an effort to stop Congress’s…
thehill.com
Prosecutors have also charged two men who were seen in social media images carrying plastic flex cuffs, which are plastic restraints often used by military and law enforcement when detaining groups of people.
One of those men could be seen sporting what appeared to be a weapon in a holster on his hip in pictures of him inside the Capitol. The day of the riots, FBI identified the man as Eric Munchel, of Nashville, Tenn., and arrested him at his hotel in D.C.
He was carrying a Taser in a holster when he was arrested, which he told investigators was for protection,
according to an affidavit from an FBI agent.
Another man, Christopher Alberts of Maryland, was arrested on the Capitol grounds as police were clearing the building when an officer noticed that he was carrying a pistol.