Jerad Miller cried ‘hysterically’ when he was asked to leave Bundy ranch, candidate says http://t.co/V46j70CSc0

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Howard Scheff, another American Independent candidate, said he met the couple in March, at a rally against Common Core, and saw them again the following month at another rally and then at the Bundy ranch.

Amanda Miller had legally purchased a shotgun and semiautomatic pistol carried by her husband, Scheff said, and she carried a revolver.

Scheff, who’s running for the District 42 seat in the Nevada statehouse, said he liked the couple, who were about the same age as his own children, but he quickly realized Jerad Miller could not remain at the ranch.

He learned that Jerad Miller was a convicted felon, although he continued to carry guns - including an AR-15 someone had loaned him during a patrol shift - and he received a disturbing text during a visit home to Las Vegas.

“‘You need to get back here, it’s going down,’” Scheff said Jerad Miller told him in the message. “‘They’ve got drones in the sky, they’ve got guys coming in to attack us.’”

Scheff said he called the Bundy family, who said nothing had changed since he left the ranch, and he found Jerad Miller even more “amped up” when he returned.

“‘I’m going over to the (Bureau of Land Management) base camp to get this started,’” he said Jerad Miller told him.

Scheff brought his concerns to militia members who had been handling security during the standoff, and they agreed to tell Jerad Miller he had failed a background check. [Emphasis added.]

“They just told them to leave, and he cried - hysterically cried, so emotional my heart broke,” Scheff said. “He wanted to do the right thing, but he didn’t know how to do that.”

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He was going to get them killed, so they told him he failed a background check.