The home of a gun rights activist who loaded a shotgun in downtown D.C. was being searched by police late Tuesday evening.
Adam Kokesh posted a video of himself on the Fourth of July loading a real shotgun with live ammunition at Freedom Plaza in D.C.
A search warrant was being executed Tuesday by U.S. Park Police at Kokesh's home in Herndon, Va. Police officers were reportedly searching for the shotgun Kokesh displayed last week, according to Kokesh's producer and roommate Darrell Young.
"We were expecting this," Young said. "We were expecting the Government to raid our house."
Kokesh, an Iraq war veteran, told News4 Monday that his actions were intentional. It doesn't make sense that he can have a gun on one side of the river and not the other, he said.
"I was ready to stand by my word, and I was ready to commit the civil disobedience that I had committed to," he said.
It is illegal to carry guns in the District of Columbia.
In the video, titled "Open Carry March on DC a Success," Kokesh looks directly into the camera as he loads bullets into a shotgun.
"We will not be silent; we will not obey; we will not allow our government to destroy our humanity," Kokesh says in the video, while periodically loading bullets and then cocking the gun. "We are the final American Revolution. See you next Independence Day."
Kokesh said he believes he is the legal owner of the gun shown in the video, but declined to say where -- or if -- it was registered.
"I was here, and I loaded a shotgun on Independence Day, but I didn't kill anybody. I didn't drone any children," he said Monday. "I didn't steal any children's future. I didn't sell this country into debt. I didn't do any of the crimes that the man two blocks over at the White House is responsible for."