They are such a flight risk it took two years after the ranch episode to bother to arrest them. The flight risk argument is total BS that any judge should see past. The Oregon judge and this Nevada judge should be removed from the bench.
The choice was send the cops in and dig them out of the ranch ala Waco in 1993, or wait for them to show up in public and nab them then. They chose the latter. If you or the Bundy's or anyone thought that the federal government was in a forgiving and forgetting mood then you're incredibly naïve.