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It’s official: Ammon Bundy and six others have been acquitted of charges linked to the nearly six week-long armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near Burns, Oregon earlier this year.

From the New York Times:

Ammon and Ryan Bundy and five of their followers, charged in the armed takeover of a federally owned Oregon wildlife sanctuary in January, were acquitted Thursday of federal conspiracy and weapons charges.

The verdict brings to a close a case that gripped the nation earlier this year with its public debate about government powers, public lands and constitutional rights.

And from NPR:

A jury has found all seven defendants not guilty of conspiracy and firearms charges linked to an armed occupation of a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon earlier this year.

The defendants included brothers Ammon and Ryan Bundy, the alleged leaders of the occupation that lasted nearly six weeks. They and five others were exonerated on the charges of conspiring to impede federal workers from their jobs at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.

Here are some of the reactions on Twitter:

If you have further questions, check out our “Ask a Militia Patriot Occupying a Federal Bird Sanctuary” column!

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3 replies on “The Bundy Brothers Were Just Ruled Not Guilty”

  1. Hey Oregon Federal Court and Jurors,

    Why don’t you double down and award those rednecks damages for false imprisonment while you’re at it. You can probably pay them in chewing tobacco and Confederate flags. But please don’t pay them in ammo and weaponry. I’m pretty sure they’re all set in that department.

  3. Good, the system works, a jury of their peers made the right choice. They may not be innocent, but they were innocent of those charges. This is on the prosecutor for having high ambitions, and difficult charges to prove. Also if BLM protestors can riot, create property damage, injury people, and generally create an unsafe experience in the city, then some rednecks hanging out in a building in the woods not hurting anyone shouldn’t get punished any worse.

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