In late December a relative of insurrectionist Guy Reffitt reported his violent plans to the FBI.

[pnwmom]

And no investigation was opened.

https://www.emptywheel.net/2021/03/14/i-started-the-fire-doj-reveals-another-missed-advance-warning-about-january-6/

In a motion laying out why accused insurrectionist Guy Reffitt is so dangerous he must be detained pre-trial, the government revealed that, in December, one of his family members (likely his son) contacted the FBI and warned them about Reffitt’s dangerous plans for legislators.

In late December 2020, one of Reffitt’s family members informed the FBI that Reffitt was “going to do some serious damage” related to federal legislators in Washington, D.C.

At around the same time, Reffitt was bragging on a Telegram chat with fellow militia members that he was going to go to DC in “full battle rattle.”

After FBI had received that warning, Reffitt put his AR-15 and a pistol into his car, and drove to DC from Texas promising to “drag[] those people out of the Capitol by their ankles” and install a new government. He sent messages on Telegram about coming to the riot armed and arranged for a “rendezvous point.” He donned body armor and a helmet and brought zip ties. According to comments he made to his kid, he brought the pistol to the Capitol. According to his own description of events, he resisted two officers trying to keep him from climbing the stairs they were trying to protect. He claimed he “started the fire” that allowed others to breach the Capitol. And, in days after the attack, Reffitt promised his kid that he was not done, that the attack on the Capitol was just the beginning. He attempted to recruit two other rioters to join the Three Percenter militia. He threatened both his children that he would kill them if they reported him to the FBI. His adult son has since moved out of his house.

The government has since discovered that Reffitt had an unregistered silencer in his home and had set up a company as a front to use to obtain law enforcement grade weapons to stockpile for his revolution.


HERE'S THE COURT FILING.
https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.226696/gov.uscourts.dcd.226696.10.0.pdf

[MustLoveBeagles]

1. K&R

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Link says FBI did nothing, but I doubt that

I would suspect sometimes they let them run to see what they're up to

[WVreaper]

3. Hey dad!

You're fucking nuts, bye.

[pnwmom]

4. Whoever reported him was very brave. Did you by any chance read the court filing?

It was really interesting.

[PCIntern]

7. I read it at your suggestion.

You’re right: quite a chronicle and portrait of a traitor.

[pnwmom]

9. And that family had quite a dilemma. Good for them -- and too bad the FBI

failed to follow through.

[Aristus]

5. "Full battle rattle" is an expression that came into use after I got out of the Army

in 1993. Stupid expression. Never heard it when I was in.

The last thing you want to do when you go into battle is to be rattling.

I wish its use was confined to armchair warriors like this guy. But one of my classmates in PA School, a veteran of the Iraq War, used the term, as well.

[JT45242]

6. Curious if ceramic plates in armor make a rattle

I know that some of the early vests had ceramic pieces, just curious.

[Aristus]

10. By the time I was in, personal protective armor was made from Kevlar, not ceramic.

We tankers were issued two protective vests; an outer one similar to the kind you see worn in Vietnam films, only in woodland camouflage, and a smaller vest that fit under our Nomex coveralls. We rarely wore both at the same time due to the way they restricted movement. We usually tossed them in the bustle rack packed with the rest of our personal gear.

[BobTheSubgenius]

16. It sounds kind of Brit to me.

They love rhyming slang, preferring a decent rhyme to making good sense.

[Duppers]

8. Ever tried to report something suspicious

to the FBI? I have & was ignored too - zero follow-up.

[Tommymac]

11. Wonder who he brought the pistol for...

and I wonder who in the FBI buried this report in the bottom of the In-Box.

It is going to take YEARS to root out all the low-level insurrectionists Former put in place.

[AnrothElf]

12. Wow! That's one of the more damaging indictments I've read

They need to throw the book at these terrorists. All of them. That guy should probably live the rest of his life in prison. It's sedition, but the death penalty is barbaric.

[uponit7771]

13. +1, cause terrorism is what they did

[COL Mustard]

14. Clearly A Shoo-In For Father Of The Year.......

Not.

Lock his ass up!

[keithbvadu2]

15. "...was just the "beginning" of "a lot more"

“…was just the “beginning” of “a lot more”

“I have a new security business to circumvent the 2nd Amendment issue.”