I just quickly read through the indictment. It says there was a reconnaisance exercise planned for sometime in April, 2010. It doesn’t really say what the reconnaisance was to accomplish that I could tell. I’m wondering that by filing the sedition charges, then the use of firearms during any training (assuming it was for sedition) can be considered illegal. Otherwise, these where a few guys training/practicing with legal firearms.
a recon mission is “going to check out the location.”
It is not an “in the act” part of a conspiracy.