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.