NEW EVIDENCE: Trump extremists brought numerous guns to the Capitol on January 6 - 2021-09-30

NEW EVIDENCE: Trump extremists brought numerous guns to the Capitol on January 6 September 30, 2021, Mark Follman, Mother Jones

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This attempted political cover-up has hinged on another specific claim: that no one who stormed the Capitol brought guns.

"This didn't seem like an armed insurrection to me," Johnson said five weeks after the attack, adding, "When you think of armed, don't you think of firearms?" During the May hearings, Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona claimed "zero firearms" were found among suspects charged with breaching the Capitol. "There were no guns whatsoever," former President Trump declared repeatedly during a Fox News interview in July.

Evidence of numerous firearms among January 6 perpetrators shows those claims to be false. A Mother Jones investigation drawing on public video footage, congressional testimony, and documents from more than a dozen federal criminal cases reveals that various Trump supporters descended on DC that day armed for battle with guns and other potentially lethal weapons. At least three people arrested in connection with the insurrection are facing charges for carrying firearms on Capitol grounds. At least eight others carried knives or tasers at the Capitol, including two defendants who allegedly committed assaults with tasers, according to FBI and court documents. Multiple others arrested downtown and in the vicinity of the Capitol had rifles, pistols, explosive materials, and large supplies of ammunition. And communications among numerous January 6 suspects detailed in court documents indicate that many of their fellow insurrectionists were armed with guns.

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