Craig Robertson, 75, was killed when special agents tried to serve him with an arrest warrant at his Provo home early Wednesday, just days after he’d posted on Facebook he planned to dust off his sniper rifle ahead of Biden’s visit to the state, the feds said.
His relatives said Robertson — who they described as a “firearm enthusiast, collector and gunsmith” — loved the US “with all his heart” but had become increasingly disappointed by the Biden administration.
“As an elderly — and largely homebound — man, there was very little he could do but exercise his First Amendment right to free speech and voice his protest in what has become the public square of our age — the internet and social media.
“Though his statements were intemperate at times, he has never, and would never, commit any act of violence against another human being over a political or philosophical disagreement.”