Bundy asks armed group to stand down

<p><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/01/27/1-dead-feds-arrest-oregon-protest-leader-ammon-bundy/79392112/" target="_blank">After a shootout with police</a>&nbsp;left one man dead and seven people, Ammon Bundy, who was one of those arrested, is asking members of the Oregon militia that took over a federal building to go home.&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/oregon-occupation-ammon-bundy-asks-supporters-abandon-refuge-n505536" target="_blank">In a statement, Bundy said</a>: &quot;To those at the refuge, I love you. Let us take this fight from here. Please stand down. Go home and hug your families.&quot; He also implored the government to let the militia go home &quot;without being prosecuted.&quot;&nbsp;</p><p>Bundy&#39;s statement echoes what law enforcement has been saying since the group took over the building almost a month ago. &quot;It&#39;s time for everybody in this illegal occupation to move on. There doesn&#39;t have to be bloodshed in our community,&quot; Sheriff David Ward&nbsp;<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/27/us/oregon-wildlife-refuge-siege-arrests/" target="_blank">said during a press conference</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>But it doesn&#39;t look like the group plans on leaving anytime soon. According to&nbsp;<a href="http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-oregon-refuge-roadblocks-20160127-story.html" target="_blank">the Los Angeles Times</a>, one of the occupiers said in a live stream: &quot;There are no laws in this United States now! This is a free-for-all Armageddon!&quot; adding if &quot;they stop you from getting here, kill them!&quot;</p><p>Now law enforcement officials are responding more forcefully to the occupation than they have in the past. Authorities have blocked off roads leading up to the building, adding checkpoints and&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/oregon-occupation-ammon-bundy-asks-supporters-abandon-refuge-n505536" target="_blank">based off video from NBC</a>, they don&#39;t seem to be letting anyone near the area. (Video via&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/oregon-occupation-ammon-bundy-asks-supporters-abandon-refuge-n505536" target="_blank">NBC</a>)&nbsp;</p><p>Though the FBI hasn&#39;t released many details about how the shootout started, it did say law enforcement was trying to stop the group as they were headed to a community meeting and that at least&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/oregon-occupation-ammon-bundy-asks-supporters-abandon-refuge-n505536" target="_blank">one member of the militia shot at officers</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><i>This video includes images from Getty Images.&nbsp;</i></p>