The nearly 50-year-old Guy Reffitt was the first to stand trial after the storming of the US Congress.
After being in custody for 19 months, he is now sentenced to 7 years and 3 months in prison.
According to prosecutors, Reffitt, who during the riot wore a gun, a protective vest and a helmet with a camera attached, allegedly told other members of the militia group "Texas Three Percenters" that he planned to drag the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Democrat Nancy Pelosi, out of the building with his feet before "so that her head hits every step on the way down”.
Threatened his two children
Refitt's 19-year-old son, who testified during the trial, said the father told him that he and his sister were traitors if they turned him in to the authorities, warning at the same time that "traitors get shot."
Hundreds remain to be brought to justice
The longest prison sentence handed down before Reffitts was five years and three months.
It involved two men who pleaded guilty to assaulting police officers who were at the Capitol.
More than 840 people have been charged with crimes related to the congressional storming and over 340 of them have pleaded guilty, mostly to minor crimes.
More than 220 have been convicted, of which nearly half have received prison terms.
About 150 others have trial dates that extend into 2023.