Shots fired near BLM employees on land used by Cliven Bundy's cattle (UPDATED)

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Source: Associated Press

The federal Bureau of Land Management is taking safety precautions after gunshots were fired near a group of contract employees on public land in southern Nevada where rancher Cliven Bundy's cattle roam.

BLM officials say the three Great Basin Institute employees were studying water seeps and springs in the remote Gold Butte area, about 100 miles northeast of Las Vegas, on June 5 when they were approached by two men who asked what they were doing.

The employees left after six shots were fired later that night near their camp in the same area that's being eyed for federal protection as a national conservation area.

Read more: http://lasvegassun.com/news/2015/jun/12/blm-takes-precautions-after-shots-fired-near-resea/

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Update: Cliven Bundy denies involvement in shooting near BLM camp
Source: The Spectrum

Bunkerville rancher Cliven Bundy on Friday denied he was involved in an incident in the Gold Butte area southwest of Mesquite on June 5 in which three Bureau of Land Management contractors claim shots were fired near their camp on two occasions one night.

A story published in a Las Vegas newspaper Friday morning said the FBI and Metro Police were investigating the alleged incident.

... Bundy told the Desert Valley Times he and his eldest son Ryan did meet the three contractors while delivering hay to his cattle.

“We did greet those people, but we didn’t have anything to do with any shooting,” Bundy said. “We just told them we hoped they’d enjoy their stay.

Read more: http://www.thespectrum.com/story/news/local/2015/06/12/cliven-bundy-denies-involvement-shooting-near-blm-camp/71161998/

[awoke_in_2003]

1. These people

need a giant smack down before they kill someone.

[jtuck004]

2. They were taught to win all they had to do is show a little bravado, false or not. I can't

believe anyone could think anything else but this could happen.

Seems likely to escalate to murder, given the slightest provocation.

They need to be re-trained, but to do so is now going to take more force, and perhaps "violence", than it would have the first time.

[lonestarnot]

3. Guess they get to murder someone before something is done about those fuckwads.

Freeloaders.

[kairos12]

7. Armed taker, mooching, no account lowlifes.

[63splitwindow]

4. And they're the "Law and Order" type...

except when they aren't. Blind hypocrites.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

5. They've been identifying these idiots who flocked in from all over....

Then they quietly arrest the ones who break the law later when their guard is down.

Sometimes it's easy. Just show up at their work.

[frylock]

6. Bravo, Eric Holder

[meow2u3]

8. PBO ought to send in the National Guard

and put down this insurrection once and for all.

[phantom power]

9. Bundy and his thugs think they're in charge. And really, why wouldn't they?

[63splitwindow]

10. Oh, Bundy's so clever ...

“We did greet those people, but we didn’t have anything to do with any shooting,” Bundy said. “We just told them we hoped they’d enjoy their stay."