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Cop hit with gun charges

Friday, Aug. 1, 1997 | 9:16 a.m.

Deputy Griffith Rausch, 25, reserve deputy Kevin Storms, 26, and his brother, Robert Storms, a 30-year-old bartender at the Bucket of Blood Saloon were arraigned on the counts in U.S. District Court in Reno.

The federal complaint said the men "stated their hatred of federal law enforcement and willingness to violently confront federal law enforcement agents," KRNV-TV reported on Thursday.

The three men were arrested on Wednesday after the allegedly tried to sell a pipe bomb, FBI Special Agent Walter Stowe told the television station. The FBI said the men also converted semiautomatic weapons into fully automatic ones.

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