bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms because he had links to the aryan nations. and they tried to pressure him to inform on his friends in the movement, and he refused. >> weaver is summoned to court for a weapons charge that involves the selling of some sawed-off shotguns to law enforcement. >> now a force of 200 police, federal agents and the national guard have surrounded the house. >> this is nothing more than a show of force to scare everybody who lives up here in north idaho. we all have guns in our houses. we all have guns buried someplace. >> northern idaho has become home for a lot of people like randy weaver who want to be away from the problems of civilization and from civilization itself. >> he's not a terrorist. he's not endangering anybody. everybody that knows him has talked about him as a good, loving christian family man. >> never before has northern idaho witnessed this kind of fire power from the federal government. >> what should have been a relatively routine arrest went very badly wrong.