Montana Man Who Wore ‘Tactical Citizen’ Hat While Storming Capitol Wasn’t Actually Very Tactical

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This is not the kind of name recognition most business owners hope for.

Federal authorities say they identified a Montana man as one of the people who took part in the Jan. 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol after multiple videos showed him inside the Capitol Complex wearing a hat bearing the name of the firearms training school that he started in 2018. As a result, Andrew Cavanaugh, the owner and president of Tactical Citizen, LLC, is now facing a slew of federal charges.

According to the criminal complaint filed Monday in the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., FBI investigators sifted through a compilation of videos posted to the social media site Parler and found several showing Cavanaugh wearing a camouflage-colored baseball hat with the “Tactical Citizen” name across the front.

In one of the videos, a person filming from inside the Capitol can be heard loudly yelling, “Where are the fucking traitors at? Drag them out by their fucking hair!”

“As he speaks, the white male wearing the Tactical Citizen baseball cap, replies off camera, ‘Yeah!’” according to the charging document.

Investigators were then able to trace the company back to Cavanaugh “due to the unique name on the baseball cap.”

Montana Man Who Wore ‘Tactical Citizen’ Hat While Storming Capitol Wasn’t Actually Very Tactical