Gun rights activist Adam Kokesh says a video that depicts him loading a shotgun on D.C.'s Freedom Plaza was real. Kokesh loaded a real shotgun with live ammunition around 8 a.m. July 4 before uploading the video to YouTube, he told News4's Mark Segraves on Monday. The background was not a green screen, he told Segraves, and no one stopped him as he made the 23-second video.
Kokesh, an Iraq war veteran, said Monday that his actions were intentional. It doesn't make sense that he can have a gun on one side of the river and not the other, he said.
"I was ready to stand by my word, and I was ready to commit the civil disobedience that I had committed to," he said.
It is illegal to carry guns in the District of Columbia.
In the video, titled "Open Carry March on DC a Success," Kokesh looks directly into the camera as he loads bullets into a shotgun.
"We will not be silent; we will not obey; we will not allow our government to destroy our humanity," Kokesh says in the video, while periodically loading bullets and then cocking the gun. "We are the final American Revolution. See you next Independence Day."
Kokesh said he believes he is the legal owner of the gun shown in the video, but declined to say where -- or if -- it was registered.
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