Mr. Jones has had several bursts of mainstream attention. In 2011 he aired an interview with Charlie Sheen that led to the actor’s dismissal from the sitcom “Two and a Half Men.” Two years later he started an online petition to deport the CNN host Piers Morgan, a British citizen, from the United States because of his advocacy of gun control laws.

Mr. Morgan invited Mr. Jones onto his show to debate gun control, but it quickly devolved into more than 10 minutes of red-faced screaming by Mr. Jones, who affected a British accent and called Mr. Morgan “a hatchet man of the New World Order.”

“I am here to tell you, 1776 will commence again if you try to take our firearms,” he yelled. “Doesn’t matter how many lemmings you get out there on the street begging for them to have their guns taken, we will not relinquish them. Do you understand?”

What Does He Believe?

Mr. Jones has described himself as a libertarian. Many of his views mix traditional conservative critiques of government with wild-eyed delusions about globe-spanning conspiracies. His main focus is a supposed liberal plot to seize people’s guns and install a tyrannical world government.

There is almost no major news event that Mr. Jones has not woven into that conspiracy narrative. He argues that the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and the Oklahoma City bombing were “inside jobs” committed by rogue elements of the “military industrial complex.” He says the Sandy Hook shooting was a hoax perpetrated by forces hostile to the Second Amendment. The list goes on.