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Randy Weaver dead at 74: Survivalist famed for 11-day Ruby Ridge standoff with FBI passes away
The Sun ^ | 5/12/2022 | G. P. Rodriguez

Posted on 05/12/2022 10:33:57 AM PDT by TexasGurl24

Edited on 05/12/2022 1:01:07 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

RANDY Weaver, the survivalist known for his role in the Ruby Ridge standoff with the FBI, has died at the age of 74.

His daughter Sara confirmed the news on Facebook on Thursday.

Weaver's wife Vicki and 14-year-old son Samuel were killed by an FBI sniper during an 11-day standoff in the mountains of Idaho in 1992.

The standoff began when the US Marshall Service tried to arrest Weaver for failing to appear on a firearms charge.

Weaver had chosen not to surrender and remained inside his cabin on Ruby Ridge for a year and a half with his family.

When Marshalls showed up at the property, a shootout took place when Weaver, his son Samuel, and a friend Kevin Harris came out to check out the situation.

Samuel was shot by Marshalls, and Harris then shot dead Deputy U.S. Marshal William Francis Degan.

The following day, Weaver's wife, Vicki, was shot in the head by an FBI sniper while she held their 10-month-old daughter in her arms.

Weaver turned himself in 11 days later and was charged with killing Degan, but a jury acquitted him.

He ultimately served 16 months in jail for the original gun charge but following the horror that shook Ruby Ridge, where the family lived, stayed with Weaver until his dying day.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Idaho
KEYWORDS: agbarr; banglist; fbi; fbisniper; fedscum; horiucci; horiuchi; lonhoriuchi; murderingfibbies; randyweaver; rkba; rubyridge; sniper
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To: Zathras
Ruby Ridge: When America first discovered that the FBI and our Gov is corrupt.

It sure woke up the country as national news.

21 posted on 05/12/2022 10:48:43 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: srmanuel

“If I’m not mistaken, Lon Horiucci was involved in shooting at the Branch Davidians in Waco.”

Yup.

https://www.liquisearch.com/lon_horiuchi/waco

“On 13 September 1993, Charles Riley, a fellow FBI sniper deployed during the Waco Siege claimed that he had heard Horiuchi shooting from Sierra 1, an F.B.I.-held house in front of the compound holding eight snipers, including Horiuchi and Christopher Curran on 19 April 1993. Riley later retracted his statement, saying that he had been misquoted, and that he had only heard snipers at Sierra 1 announce that shots had been fired by Branch Davidians.

Three of the twelve expended .308 Winchester shell casings that the Texas Rangers reported finding in the house were at Horiuchi’s position. However, officials maintain that they could have been left behind from the earlier use of the house by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives snipers on February 28, 1993, and that it would be “nearly impossible” to match them to Horiuchi’s rifle, as it had probably been rebarreled since that time.”


22 posted on 05/12/2022 10:49:23 AM PDT by MercyFlush (The Soviet Empire is right now doing a dead cat bounce.)
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To: srmanuel

He killed Vicki Weaver as she was holding a baby.


23 posted on 05/12/2022 10:49:28 AM PDT by alstewartfan ("She looks like she's 19 years old, sitting there like a lady with her legs crossed." Creepy Joe)
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To: TexasGurl24

Head-shotting an unarmed woman with an infant in her arms is just unfathomable as to how that becomes rational and acceptable in that shooters mind. Beyond grotesque, and he was a Government Agent.


24 posted on 05/12/2022 10:51:26 AM PDT by BBQToadRibs2
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To: alstewartfan

I know that my point was he was also involved in the shooting at the Branch Davidians.


25 posted on 05/12/2022 10:53:52 AM PDT by srmanuel
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To: MercyFlush
as it had probably been rebarreled since that time.”

Well how about that.

26 posted on 05/12/2022 10:54:27 AM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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To: TexasGurl24

Ruby Ridge, Waco, Alien Gonzalez etc.

The Clintons were corrupt then and so was the FBI and DoJ.

5.56mm


27 posted on 05/12/2022 10:57:03 AM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho need to go.)
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To: TexasGurl24

What started that whole GD thing was the feds wanted him to run undercover as an informant against the militia groups up there.

They wanted him to sell them an illegal firearm so they could move in on that group. Weaver asked them-it was a shotgun if I remember right, where to cut to barrel to make it illegal.


28 posted on 05/12/2022 10:57:17 AM PDT by crz
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To: alstewartfan

He went on to murder people at Waco.


29 posted on 05/12/2022 10:59:52 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (Kimber .45 )
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To: TexasGurl24

Jerry Spence,
One hell of a lawyer.


30 posted on 05/12/2022 11:00:27 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (Kimber .45 )
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To: Red Badger

Yes


31 posted on 05/12/2022 11:00:58 AM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: srmanuel

Yet he has survived.


32 posted on 05/12/2022 11:02:10 AM PDT by prov1813man (Don't blame democrat voters. There weren't enough of them to matter.)
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To: TexasGurl24

“Weaver’s wife, Vicki, was shot in the head by an FBI sniper”

Say his name. Lon Horiuchi.

“Weaver turned himself in 11 days later and was charged with killing Degan, but a jury indicted him.”

I think they mean to say a jury acquitted him.


33 posted on 05/12/2022 11:03:00 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: crz

An FBI plant instructed Weaver to cut the shotgun short, so they would have a gun charge to hold over him.


34 posted on 05/12/2022 11:03:01 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan (qd4)
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To: MercyFlush

“it would be “nearly impossible” to match them to Horiuchi’s rifle, as it had probably been rebarreled since that time.”

How convenient.


35 posted on 05/12/2022 11:05:14 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: prov1813man

Survived what? Why wouldn’t he survive? I would assume he’s been retired for decades and nowhere close to another firefight.


36 posted on 05/12/2022 11:07:32 AM PDT by TheDandyMan
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To: TexasGurl24

Thinking of his daughter. Horrible experience. Gods Blessings.


37 posted on 05/12/2022 11:07:47 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: Red Badger

Indeed.

No real journalism anymore, or English comprehension, and certainly not editing.


38 posted on 05/12/2022 11:07:50 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVds)
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To: TexasGurl24

RIP Randy Weaver.


39 posted on 05/12/2022 11:12:27 AM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: Red Badger

LOL!


40 posted on 05/12/2022 11:13:11 AM PDT by vivenne (")
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