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Weapons violations. >> there were several people federally indicted. the culmination of the project 7 investigation and people did go away to federal prison for a period of time. >> i was the only one that went to trial. everybody else pled guilty. david pled guilty, too. >> he went to prison for seven years. >> we're all lucky this case ended at least for us back then the way that it did. and then i didn't hear dave burgert's name for years until he got into a shootout with missoula county deputies. >> he had told people he was going to go down in a ball of flame and glory. >> i was looking d...

We just weren't going to go away. once the reality of that sunk in, he sits down, puts the gun to his own head and we begin talking to him and attempting to get him to give up without any violence to us and without harming himself. >> eventually the negotiators convince him to put the gun down and then they arrested him. >> once mr. burgert is arrested, more and more things came to light. project 7 had a huge stockpile of weapons and ammunition. some of these were actual machine guns that it was not legal for them to possess. additionally, we found evidence that they were compiling a list of p...

Attempting to stage his own death or disappearance, and we didn't believe that he would stay missing for very long. >> in february of 2002, we get a 17-year-old male individual who came to us and said that mr. burgert was not dead, he had been living up in the woods with his girlfriend, tracy brockwood. >> tracy brockwood was having an affair with david. >> and they were members of this militia group known as project 7. >> project 7 believed that if big brother or big government becomes too oppressive, they were going to fight back. >> being a citizen of the republic is not a spectator sport. ...

And forgot his pistol. woke up the next day and he didn't have his gun, wanted to find it and he asked the sheriff's department if they had found it. >> in his mind, he had made a mistake, he got too buttered and he left his gun in the trailer that he broke into, and then he was even dumber when he called the cops. it was me, i didn't really do anything that bad, little b & e, i left my gun, i wasn't going to hurt anybody, give me the gun back. how did they repay david burgert for his honesty in 'fessing up? four years in prison. >> when he got out of prison, he moved to flathead valley in nor...

Like citizen watchdog in his mind, i think. >> the guy was notorious for being just a pain in the ass. >> he was just one of those very confrontational individuals. >> the people who knew dave felt that it was just a matter of time before something happened. >> in november of 2001, david worked as a process server for a missoula based attorney and that attorney was in kalispell trying to serve a woman, and was having a hard time tracking her down. finally, he said i got to go back to missoula and he dropped the papers off with david. this attorney on his way out of town happens to see the woma...