A 49-year-old Las Vegas man was arrested near former President Donald Trump’s rally in Coachella on Saturday with a loaded firearm and a high-capacity magazine, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department said Sunday.
Deputies assigned to the rally contacted the driver of a black SUV at a checkpoint near the intersection of Avenue 52 and Celebration Drive just before 5 p.m. Saturday, sheriff’s officials said.
They allegedly found the driver in possession of a shotgun, a loaded handgun and a high-capacity magazine. The driver was identified as Vem Miller, and was taken into custody and later booked at the John J. Benoit Detention Center on suspicion of possessing a loaded firearm and possessing a high-capacity magazine.
This is the USA, someone with a loaded gun in their car is near anything all the time.
not high capacity magazines though.
Depends on what “high capacity” means in this report
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Local outlets say that Miller is a registered Republican. He has a master’s degree from UCLA and campaigned for Nevada’s state assembly in 2022, but lost in the primary election, according to local daily newspaper The Press-Enterprise.
Bianco said he is part of a right-leaning anti-government group and considers himself a sovereign citizen, someone who does not believe they are subject to government laws unless they agree to them.
https://www.newsweek.com/who-vem-miller-man-arrested-loaded-gun-outside-trump-rally-1968341
I’m more amused than I really should be about how they are eating their own now. Unless I’m misremembering, none of the three have been lefties of any stripe.
I don’t want to give any sovcits any credit at all but trumps recent rhetoric is so openly authoritarian that some of them might have actually realized the face eating leopard is a threat to them too
Edit: I can’t believe I just thought of this, but these could also be folks that hopes to start a civil war because they either believe it’s inevitable, are obsessed with the Turner Diaries, or both.
All three were Republicans.
Violence breeds violence.
But in the end it has to be this way
I thought that one kid was a registered Republican, but his political beliefs were unknown. He also donated to some left-wing group, didn’t he?
His motives are still “under investigation”.
His political activities include social media comments that “appear to reflect antisemitic and anti-immigration themes” and “espouse political violence”. Pretty shit political beliefs, if you want to call them that.
Thank you! That’s news to me.
include social media comments that “appear to reflect antisemitic and anti-immigration themes” and “espouse political violence”
Throw a dart at a board full of conservative voters and you’ll hit one with these same types of social media comments in their history. All this tells me is “he was a conservative that spoke online”.
I call bullshit. He wasn’t there to assassinate Trump. If he was, they sure as shit aren’t letting him out on $5k bond the same day with only minor charges.
Why can’t 2nd amendment advocates open carry at Trump’s rallies? Does he not support gun rights?
No, he actually doesn’t. He has been very vocal and clear about it.
Rallies are considered private events. You can regulate firearms at private events even in states with permissive firearm laws. Firearms were disallowed at the NRA conference during the leadership event.
I always said if they were shooting up boardrooms instead of classrooms we’d have gun control yesterday.
They found him with a shotgun and a handgun and they think they stopped an assassination attempt? Sounds like bs; you’re not going to get close enough to use those unless someone really messes up at their job.
So the NRA is going to hold a press conference about how this man’s second amendment rights were infringed, right?
Also, every time I see “Trump rally in Coachella,” for just a second I think, “why is he holding a rally at the music festival?”
Up until right now, I always thought Coachella was just the name of the festival, not a place - sort of like Burning Man.
I’ve never been more confused by a headline in my life.
You’ve never been to Burning Man, AL? Great bbq.
Another Republican, I am shocked
Also a sovereign citizen.
If he’s a SovCit, I’m surprised he doesn’t have an RPG in his car to be honest. And it wouldn’t have anything to do with Trump. It would have to do with their contract being violated or whatever.
Oh, but it was ok in 2009 when a guy attended an event that Obama was speaking at with an assault rifle? These Republicans sure don’t like people to exercise their right to bear arms.
You have to bear them against the right people.
Yeah, because the was outside at a rally in Arizona. That would be legal today as well. There are really dramatic differences in gun laws state to state. It’s kind of staggering, especially when the states border each other. California and Arizona is a great example. NH and Mass. NY and Penna.
In one state, carrying a magazine that can hold 11 bullets, even if you don’t have a gun and it has no bullets actually in it, is illegal. Cross the state line, and you can openly carry an AR15 with a bullet in the chamber, safety disengaged, and a 50-round magazine in the rifle and walk down main street.
It’s pretty nuts.
What did dear leader do to these republicans? 😯
A lot of those attendees glad the cops didn’t check their vehicle
I thought that 75% of Trump rally people were armed regularly.
