FL Man Calling For Race-Based Civil War Sentenced To Prison: DOJ

Miami FL

29 September, 2021

11:37 AM

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MIAMI, FL — A Fort Lauderdale man who called for a race-based civil war was sentenced to 41 months' imprisonment on multiple firearms offenses by a South Florida federal district judge Tuesday, according to a news release from the Department of Justice. Paul Nicholas Miller, 33, will also have three years of supervised release for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon in 2018, and possessing ammunition as a convicted felon and possessing an unregistered short-barreled rifle in 2021. Miller, who had previously been convicted of three separate felony offenses in New Jersey, took a live firearms training in Fort Lauderdale in January 2018. During this training, he fired a handgun, the DOJ said. He used the certificate of completion from this training to apply for a concealed weapon license in Florida. In this application, Miller falsely affirmed that he had never been convicted of a felony, the DOJ said. Florida authorities denied his application due to his prior felony convictions. Federal law enforcement arrested Miller March 2 after a federal grand jury returned an indictment in connection with Miller's 2018 firearms training. After this arrest, law enforcement discovered an unregistered short-barreled rifle and hundreds of rounds of ammunition inside Miller's home. He admitted that he had bought the ammunition and that he had tried to build his own rifle, in part, to learn about firearms manufacturing in preparation for a coming civil war, the DOJ said. In the months leading up to his arrest, Miller made hundreds of internet posts about his animosity towards various minority groups and his support for the initiation of a race-based civil war in the United States, the DOJ said. A federal grand jury later added two counts to Miller's indictment for his possession of the ammunition and the unregistered short-barreled rifle found in his home. He pled guilty to all three charges June 22.