Alex Jones Is Harboring Firearms for Jan. 6 Rioters, Bankruptcy Filing Reveals

Alex Jones—Infowars founder and right-wing conspiracy theorist—revealed he is “holding firearms for certain January 6th participants,” according to a bankruptcy statement obtained by The Washington Post. Jones filed for bankruptcy after being ordered to pay a total of nearly $1.5 billion to the families of those killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary massacre after falsely claiming the attack was a hoax. Jones participated in the “Stop the Steal” rally that immediately preceded the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. The filing does not state how Jones obtained these firearms, why he is holding them, or where they are currently located, according to the Post. However, he claimed to HuffPost on Thursday that he was simply storing guns belonging to Infowars employees Owen Shroyer and Sam Montoya, who have both been charged for their roles in the riot. “Both their lawyers respectively asked us if they could store those guns here while the cases were going on,” Jones said.