Also, there are charges pending against people who had a stash of firearms in a hotel in Virginia, just across the Potomac, and planned to bring them over at a later stage. Firearms are largely banned in DC so the idea was to take over the Congress first and then establish a defensive perimeter.

Now, I didn't say it was a good plan.

> These include people arrested outside the Capitol grounds with weapons like guns and Molotov cocktails

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/02/04/us/capitol-ar...