texas pled guilty to a plot to do much the same thing, inspired by white supremacist ideology. department of justice press release, three men plead guilty to conspiring material support to a plot to attack power grids in the united states. domestic terrorism plot was in furtherance of white supremacist ideology. and the plea agreement in that case from earlier this year spells it out. it says in the fall of 2019, two young men, one age 20, one age 24, met in an online forum. one suggested to the other that they hatch a plan to take out electrical power substations in various parts of the country to try to set off civil unrest and to hopefully try to set off a race war in the united states. this is from the plea agreement. quote, the plan was to attack the substations with powerful rifles that would penetrate the electrical transformers. members of the group estimated that would cost the government millions of dollars to recover. in addition, the defendants believed that time associated
to repair. to set off just the distraction explosion, they admitted to buying bomb components and starting to test explosives to suit that part of their plan. they also obtained multiple so-called ghost guns. guns with no serial number so they couldn t be traced. they built what the government describes as multiple ar-47 style semiautomatic rifles. they built the rifles, they were building more and they started training with them at firing ranges. when the fbi searched their homes, they found multiple firearms, including firearms with no serial number, multiple silencers, milling tools, weapons modification manuals, explosives production diagrams and manuals, chemicals and components that an fbi lab determined could be used to create an explosive device. prosecutors found a large amount of nazi-related materials such as videos, books and images. detailed u.s. power infrastructure information, a list of specific power