
Randy Weaver, who refused to leave his remote Idaho cabin to answer a U.S. gun charge with bloody consequences, died this week.
According to a social media post from his daughter Sara, Randy Weaver died on Wednesday at 74. She did not disclose a cause of death.
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the 11-day Ruby Ridge standoff which saw separate, deadly exchanges of gunfire claim the lives of Randy Weaver's wife Vicki and teenaged son Sam, as well as a U.S. Marshal.
The run up to the deadly violence saw Weaver likely entrapped in a sale of illegal guns to an undercover federal agent, according to a U.S. Senate committee finding. Weaver, who refused to work as an informant, was charged for a gun offence before the standoff, which has become a rallying point for anti-government groups.
Ruby Ridge begat Branch Davidian/Waco which begat the OKC bombing