Who was responsible for Ruby Ridge?

Randy Weaver was responsible for Ruby Ridge. Randy a former US Army engineer, moved with his family in 1983 to a cabin he built on Ruby Ridge, about 40 miles (65km) from the Canadian border.

His troubles started with the US Federal government began when he attended meetings of the Aryan Nations, a white supremacists groups, at its compound in Hayden Lake, Idaho, in late 1980.

Although he was not a member of the Aryan Nations, he shared the group’s supremacist and anti-government views. At one of the meetings, he became friends with an informant of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, who purchased two illegal sawed-off shotguns from Weaver in October 1989.

When Weaver refused to become an informant for the AFT, federal agents pursued a weapon charge against him.