The suspect in the attempted assassination of President Trump, Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, was indicted in federal court on Monday for being a felon in possession of a firearm, just hours after being arrested in Florida.
ABC11 Reported “Prosecutors have filed two charges against him: possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number.”
The felony charge stems from an incident in 2002 in which Routh barricaded himself in a home and engaged in a standoff with police. Greensboro News & Record attention Once the standoff was over, Routh was arrested and “charged with carrying a concealed weapon of mass destruction and possession of a weapon of mass destruction, a fully automatic machine gun,” the report said.
Breitbart News reported that Routh fled the scene on Sunday after being spotted by Secret Service agents pointing a rifle over a fence at Trump's Palm Beach golf course. Police found an AK-style rifle, two backpacks and a Go-Pro camera in the bushes where Routh was reportedly camped before fleeing.
Felons would be subject to 100% gun control and would be banned from purchasing or possessing firearms.
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