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Apr 13, 2024 · The outcome of the tense confrontation reverberated. In January 2016, Bundy’s eldest sons, Ammon and Ryan Bundy, and several other men who were at the Bundy ranch in 2014 led a weekslong standoff at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon. It ended with their arrests after a protest spokesperson, LaVoy Finicum, was shot dead by state ...
Jan 27, 2016 · In this composite with handout images provided by the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office, suspects (Top L) Ammon Bundy, Ryan Bundy, Ryan Waylen Payne, Brian Cavalier, (Bottom L) Peter Santilli ...
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Mar 24, 2016 · The images from the Malheur national wildlife refuge in rural Harney County – where anti-government activists, led by Ammon Bundy, staged a takeover in January to protest federal land-use ...
- Sam Levin
- How The ‘West Was Won’
- Who Really Owns The Land?
- Tensions Between Cowboys and Feds
- ‘Taking Our Land Back’
- ‘Racism Is Alive and Well’
- An ‘Overwhelming Urge’ to Intervene
- ‘I’m Not So Sure You Can Break A Bundy’
- Rise of Conservative Militia Movement
- Families Torn Apart
The Bundy ranch is located in Bunkerville, an unincorporated desert town 80 miles north-east of Las Vegas with around 1,000 residents. Outside the modest white home is a front yard protected by a small, metal gate with a sign that reads “cattle, melons & kids”. Skipper, the family’s current “bodyguard”, led me inside to a living room decorated with...
The position of cattle ranchers such as Cliven and the westerners who view him as one of the most important patriots of modern times – and now a “political prisoner” – is that cowboys first settled the west, and that the US government unlawfully asserted its authority in these territories. The Bundys claimthat a small subsection of the constitution...
The Bundy family’s fight officially began in March 1993 when, after nearly 40 years, Cliven abruptly stopped paying grazing fees and applying for BLM permits. Grazing fees had increased in the previous decade by around 30%, though the prices fluctuated each year, and by 1993 it cost Cliven roughly $2,000 a year to have 85 cattle graze on the federa...
More than 20 snipers, some carrying assault rifles, positioned themselves behind concrete barriers high above on highway bridges and aimed their weapons at the officers below them. Some were dressed in military-style tactical gear, while others hid behind unarmed supporters, using them as shields to mask their movements. This was the dramatic scene...
One week after the FBI retreated from the 2014 standoff, Cliven’s celebrity status came crashing down. Most of the media circus had left Bunkerville, but Cliven was still holding regular press conferences at his ranch where a few supporters lingered. On 19 April 2014, wearing a cowboy hat and short-sleeve white button down, Cliven, speaking to a co...
Ammon Bundy moved from the family ranch after he completed his Mormon missionaround 1997. He briefly worked construction in Las Vegas but soon after moved to Cedar City, Utah, for college. After a few semesters, Ammon dropped out and started a small repair business, which he ran when he met his now wife, Lisa. “He was really flirtatious,” she recal...
The rapid and stunning downfall of the Bundy family came after Oregon state troopers, attempting to arrest the Bundy brothers and key protest leaders, shot and killed Finicum on 26 January. Police said the shooting was self defense and that Finicum was reaching for a gun, and Finicum and Bundy supporters said it was a coordinated assassination of a...
The US shifted the way it responds to extremists after the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people. Timothy McVeigh, convicted of domestic terrorism, was motivated by government standoffs with rightwing groups in Ruby Ridge, Idaho, and Waco, Texas. The justice department createda domestic terrorism committee dedicated to prosecuting anti-...
Ryan, Ammon, Mel and Davey leave behind a total of 25 young children and wives with limited or no income. In recent months, the Bundy ranch Facebook page has featured many more emotional accounts from the Bundy women, lamenting the separation from their husbands and judges’ refusals to grant them bail. The wives frequently ask followers to donate t...
- Sam Levin
Jan 3, 2016 · The lead spokesman for the movement has been Bundy's adult son Ammon. In November, Ammon Bundy wrote on Facebook that he had visited Burns, and met with both the Hammonds and local officials to learn about their case. "The abuses to this family are much greater than I originally explained to you," he wrote. "They have quietly suffered much more ...
- Stephanie Mcneal
- Buzzfeed News Reporter
Jan 5, 2016 · Jan 27, 2016, 6:30 AM PST. The militant Bundy family is making national headlines once again, following a shootout with federal officials near Burns, Oregon. After weeks of the tense Oregon ...
