Prosecutors: Oregon standoff defendants broke into safes #BundyTeaParty
By Maxine Bernstein | The Oregonian/OregonLive
on July 30, 2016 at 5:00 AM, updated July 30, 2016 at 4:42 PM
Ammon Bundy and his supporters transformed the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge into a flophouse, broke into safes, removed hundreds of pages of federal records and left behind weapons, ammunition, explosives and hundreds of pounds of trash in an occupation that cost the U.S. Department of Interior more than $6 million, federal prosecutors say.
The defendants, the government contends, were inspired by the 2014 armed standoff in Nevada that thwarted federal officers from impounding cattle belonging to Ammon Bundy's father, controversial rancher Cliven Bundy. They repeatedly referred to the refuge takeover in eastern Oregon as "another Bunkerville,'' and described the occupied refuge as the "second freest place on earth'' after the Bundy ranch, according to a government trial brief filed late Friday.
Prosecutors will urge jurors to reject claims by the defendants that they carried guns at the refuge in self-defense, or that they simply were exercising their First Amendment rights to free speech and assembly or their Second Amendment right to bear arms ...
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