A 100-foot tunnel, secret bunker and weapons stash found at MAGA activist’s Shasta County California home

• A secret underground bunker and a weapons stash with 13 firearms, body armor and 10,000 rounds of ammunition were discovered at a MAGA activist’s Shasta County home.
• Michael Kamfolt, a friend of far-right county Supervisor Kevin Crye, was arrested on suspicion of multiple felony weapons charges.

Shasta County authorities started out investigating a suspected illegal marijuana farm but ended up making a far more unsettling discovery: a massive stash of illegal firearms and a secret underground bunker at the base of a 100-foot tunnel on a MAGA activist’s property.

Michael Jay Kamfolt, 40, was arrested Jan. 20 after members of the California Highway Patrol discovered the bunker and confiscated an array of illegally possessed weapons — including three AR-15-style assault rifles, a sawed-off shotgun and more than 10,000 rounds of ammunition — while serving a search warrant at his Anderson home.

Two of the guns were reported stolen, one in 2016 and the other in 1978, according to the CHP.

Kamfolt was arrested on suspicion of an array of misdemeanor and felony weapons-related violations. They include converting a firearm into a machine gun, manufacturing a ghost gun, possession of a stolen firearm and possession of armor penetrating ammunition.

[The bunker was] equipped with all the supplies necessary to cultivate marijuana including power, ventilation and a concrete floor with built-in drainage.

Kamfolt is a well-known conservative activist who had shown up at protests and county Board of Supervisors meetings and had repeatedly raised concerns about voting fraud, according to reports from the Shasta Scout. Shasta County has become a hotbed for hard-right governance and election denialism in the Trump era of American politics, and a staunchly conservative majority took control of the county board in 2022.

[Shasta and Supervisor Crye showed up a few times in the 'rise of menace' thread.]