According to his daughter via Facebook...
"Love you always Dad....❤
"See ya next time I see ya" 😘
January 3, 1948 - May 11, 2022 😢💔"
For those of you who may be unaware, Randy Weaver was involved in a stand-off with federal agents in 1992. Several members of his family were killed, as was their family dog...all because he didn't appear in court. RIP.
This appears to be one of those incidents that occurred as a result of increasing aggression in regards to gun control.
They probably should have never raided him in the first place.
Nah it’s way deeper than that. I think they got the dude on something gun related but even without that specific cudgel they probably would’ve tried to entrap folks for brewing moonshine or some shit.
Edit: holy fucking shit…. to clarify for anyone that hasn’t read into this because the Wikipedia pages barely mention it, the dudes gun charge was related to an undercover fed that he refused to be an informant for. Like all real nazism the dude was into aside, this is a legitimate controversy and it’s sad that the media is unwilling to take on that nuance anymore.
Entrapped him on selling a cut shotgun as to recruit him as an informant.
"On Oct. 24, 1989, Weaver sold two shotguns whose barrels arguably measured 1/4 inch less than the 18 inch length determined arbitrarily by Congress to be legal. The H&R single-barrel 12-ga. and Remington pump were sold to a good friend who instructed Weaver to shorten the barrels. The "good friend" was an undercover informant working for the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (BATF), who later told reporters he was in it "mainly for the excitement."
Eight months after he sold the shotguns, Weaver was approached by two BATF agents with an offer--spy on the Aryan Nations, a white supremacist hate group head-quartered in northern Idaho, or go to jail. Weaver refused to become a government informer, and--six months later--he was indicted on the shotgun charge."
https://www.lawfulpath.com/ref/weaver.shtml
Curiously the shotguns were never produced as evidence at Weaver's trial, so he probably didn't even cut them.
I would personally like weaver to be posthumously pardoned while bumping up the settlements for both him and Kevin Harris to $1,000,000, with the money for that and the previous settlements being deducted from the corrupt government personnel responsible.
Probably went to the wrong meeting on the wrong day -- maybe said the wrong thing at said meeting -- and the feds painted a target on his back. Then when he refused to play ball, they decided he needed to be punished for that.
"Plata o Plomo"
And let's not forget. Because they were so embarrassed by how bad this turned out, the ATF went extra hard in Waco to try and redeem themselves.
So not only did they ruin this family, they killed a shit ton more as a response because people dared to criticize them for it and make them feel bad.
We will never know if the pedophilia allegations against waco were legitimate as the evidence was likely destroyed due to the fire.
Funny that, how the only evidence that could have legitimized them in the slightest was never able to be produced. I could have believed it because Koresh certainly wasn't a saint, but at this point I'll reject it entirely because even giving them that leeway is undeserved.