Using the Telegram app to encrypt messages, Guy Reffitt of Wylie, Texas told two acquaintances that he had set up a phony security company so that he could access law enforcement-grade weaponry, and he bragged to friends that many of the domestic terrorists at the January 6th coup attempt were carrying weapons, Politico reports.

Reffitt also attempted to recruit at least two fellow rioters to join the Texas Three Percenters, a group of anti-government nationalists fixed on starting a civil war “take back our country.”

“I have a new security business to circumvent the 2nd Amendment issue,” Reffitt told the pair. “Website is under construction but business is licensed with Secretary of State, Texas DPS, and Texas Board of Private Security. We can get ammo and weapons available to law enforcement. We have an interior certified training officer. Join us and lets [sic] take back our country. The fight has only just begun.”

In documentation filed in an effort to keep Reffitt, who was arrested January 16th, behind bars pending his trial, federal prosecutors noted that Reffitt’s company, TTP Security, LLC was an apparent reference to the “Texas Three Percenters” and was fraudulently filed with the state of Texas as a front to obtain weapons.  Reffitt claims TTP stand for “Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures.”

Prosecutors obtained the messages from a family member who secretly recorded them and turned them over to law enforcement after Reffitt returned to Texas after the attack at the Capitol.

“I did bring a weapon on property that we own. Federal grounds or not,” he responded when asked if he armed during the attack. “The law is written, but it doesn’t mean it’s right law. The people that were around me were all carrying, too.”

Similarly, Reffitt said: “Even though this gun was right here loaded, all I had to do was that and shoot, but I didn’t have to do that. I chose, and everyone chose, not to,” Reffitt said, according to the recording of his conversation.