Ruby Ridge standoff
Sign in to saveThe Ruby Ridge standoff was the siege of a cabin occupied by the Weaver family in Boundary County, Idaho, in August 1992. On August 21, deputies of the United States Marshals Service (USMS) came to arrest Randy Weaver under a bench warrant for his failure to appear on federal firearms charges after he was given the wrong court date. The charges stemmed from Weaver's sale of a sawed-off shotgun to an undercover federal informant, who had entrapped him to modify the firearm below the legal barrel length.
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1990s sieges1992 controversies in the United States1992 in American politics1992 in IdahoAccuracy disputes from August 2021American police officers killed in the line of dutyAnimals shot dead by law enforcement officers in the United StatesAnti-FederalismApocalypticismArmed standoffs in the United StatesAugust 1992 in the United StatesBoundary County, Idaho