The Ruby Ridge standoff was the siege of a cabin occupied by the Weaver family in Boundary County, Idaho , in August 1992. On August 21, deputies of the United States Marshals Service (USMS) came to arrest Randy Weaver under a bench warrant for his failure to appear on federal firearms charges after he was given the wrong court date. [1] The charges stemmed from Weaver's sale of a sawed-off shotgun to an undercover federal informant , who had induced him to modify the firearm below the legal barrel length. [2]
