A federal judge has denied Terry Nichols’ request to have his guns, which are in FBI custody, sold with the proceeds to benefit victims of the Oklahoma City bombing and to support his children.
Senior U.S. District Judge Richard Matsch instead ordered that the federal government destroy the guns and credit their $6,922 value to the $14.5 million restitution Nichols owes. That debt to the government is for the bombing’s destruction of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in 1995.
McVeigh was convicted in 1997 and executed in 2001.
A government attorney who opposed Nichols’ request stated last year that the FBI in Oklahoma City had 13 of his handguns, rifles and a shotgun. The FBI seized them from Nichols’ home in Herington, Kansas, days after the April 19, 1995, bombing.
Nichols earned income as a gun dealer. The government agreed with him that the guns had nothing to do with the bombing.
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