Jan. 6 Journalist Will Appeal Judge’s Order Denying His Right to Carry Firearm

Blaze Media’s Steve Baker is accused of threatening ‘high-ranking federal lawmakers’ on Jan. 6, a charge he calls the ’height of absurdity.’

Journalist Steve Baker at the Blaze Media headquarters in Irving, Texas, on March 5, 2024. Bobby Sanchez/The Epoch Times

A journalist charged with four misdemeanors for being at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, said he will appeal a federal judge’s denial of his right to possess and carry a firearm based on an allegation that he threatened “high-ranking federal lawmakers” during the incursion.

Stephen Michael Baker, 64, of Raleigh, North Carolina, said he was flummoxed when reading the May 14 minute order issued by U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper in Washington.