January 6 rioter gets arrested on federal gun charges — one day after Trump pardon

22 January

Editor's note: The text, headline and featured image of this article have been updated.

On Monday night, January 20, Trump issued broad, across the board pardons for roughly 1,500 January 6 rioters — and he made no distinction between those who were violent and those who weren't.

One of the many defendants who was pardoned was Daniel Ball, who, according to Politico's Kyle Cheney, has been arrested again. In a Wednesday morning, January 22 post on X, formerly Twitter, Cheney reported, "JUST IN: A day after his Jan. 6 case was dismissed, Daniel BALL was arrested for pending federal gun charges — the first public arrest warrant filed in Washington, D.C. during the second Trump term."

Ball was arrested in May 2023 on a long list of felony charges.

According to the Merrick Garland-era U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), those charges included " assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers with a deadly or dangerous weapon; using fire or an explosive to commit any felony; obstruction of law enforcement during a civil disorder; entering or remaining on restricted grounds without lawful authority to do so while carrying or using a deadly or dangerous weapon; knowingly engaging in any act of physical violence while carrying or using a deadly or dangerous weapon; disorderly or disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds while carrying or using a deadly or dangerous weapon; and misdemeanor offenses of disorderly conduct in a Capitol building; acts of physical violence in the Capitol grounds or buildings; and stealing government property."

But Trump's across-the-board pardon on January 20 wiped all of those charges out — only for Ball to be arrested on gun charges the same week.

During a Fox News appearance eight days before President Donald Trump's inauguration, now-Vice President JD Vance argued that Trump should pardon some but not all of the January 6, 2021 rioters. Vance, during the interview, said he opposed pardoning the more violent defendants but favored pardoning those who didn't commit acts of violence that day.

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