A member of the Oath Keepers who spent 21 years in the military testified in the seditious conspiracy trial of Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and four other organizational leaders that the group had amassed a cache of weapons in a suburban Virginia hotel room larger than any he’d seen since he left the military, CBS News reports.
Testifying because he was subpoenaed, Terry Cummings, an Oath Keeper from Oregon, said on January 5th, he brought an AR-15 and a box of ammunition himself–strictly for defense use, he testified, in case lawlessness swept through Washington, DC–and went to a hotel room in a suburb of Washington to where he knew the group was stockpiling weapons.
“I had not seen that many weapons in one location since I was in the military,” Cummings told the jury. The cache of weapons is a key part of prosecutors’ seditious conspiracy claim: Rhodes and other members of the group said they staged a heavily-armed “quick-reaction force” in Virginia that would speed into Washington to take control of the Capitol.