The blast left the courthouse filled with smoke as sheriff's deputies, Santa Maria police and California Highway Patrol officers scrambled to find and hold McGuire.
Inside McGuire's Mustang at the courthouse, deputies found ammunition, a flare gun and a box of fireworks, along with a shotgun, rifle, additional ammunition, a device believed to be a bomb and 10 Molotov cocktails.
A witness told The Times that the explosive incident seemed to stem from McGuire's anger over the government taking away his guns, highlighting his discontent.
The U.S. Attorney's office announced that McGuire now faces a charge of maliciously damaging a building by means of explosive.
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