A 42-year-old Lebanon County man accused of making threats against 20 state Democratic lawmakers on X repeatedly railed against gun control efforts, according to court documents and postings still available online.

State police filed charges against Adam George Berryhill, of 106 E. Elm St., Lebanon, on May 6 but did not announce his arrest until Tuesday.

State police began investigating Berryhill on April 28 after being notified by the office of House Speaker Joanna McClinton about the threatening posts.

On April 22, one of the accounts attributed to Berryhill posted: “Oh you like posting hit lists?” and then named state Rep. Tim Briggs, D-Montgomery, McClinton, state Rep. Morgan Cephas, D-Philadelphia, and state Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta, D-Philadelphia. The post referred to the lawmakers as “gun grabbing communists.”

Earlier in April, the account included a post in which the author said he or she intended to file a lawsuit against 17 Democrats and said, “I’ll approach every legal avenue and when they all fail, I start shootings.”

In court documents, state police linked Berryhill to two accounts on X. The header for one of the accounts includes the text: “I am past the point of just wanting to see them in prison.”

The other account includes an image of schoolboys painting “MAGA” on a wall.

And while Berryhill was charged with making threats against the elected officials, the X accounts attributed to him by state police also include comments hinting at violence against police.

On April 16, one of the accounts included the post: “Small unit tactics to use against the city police.

(If you don’t want to pay taxes anymore),” followed by recommendations about how to ambush police officers.

The post ended with: “Fight the government,” accompanied by an image of the “Join or Die” political cartoon of a cut up snake.

Berryhill’s arrest comes a little more than a year after the governor’s residence was set on fire by a Dauphin County man who broke into the mansion intending to attack Gov. Josh Shapiro and his family. Cody Balmer pleaded guilty in October to charges related to the arson attack and was sentenced to 25-50 years in prison.

One of the posts police linked to Berryhill made a reference to Balmer, along with the declaration: “Learn the law and know when it’s your God given right to kill your authorities.”

How did they identify the suspect?

In court documents, the state police spell out how they identified Berryhill as a suspect, including identifying an image of a gun posted on an X account that was the same as an image posted on a second account. On the second account, investigators found a picture of Berryhill’s residence, along with a photo of a man wearing a face covering at a McDonald’s close to the residence.

Investigators checked Berryhill’s Facebook page and found a photo showing an individual whose face was blurred but who had a distinctive tattoo.

The tattoo is similar to a tattoo documented by police when Berryhill had been arrested previously.

Investigators then used a search warrant to obtain information from X about the accounts used to make the threats.

The accounts were linked to Berryhill’s email account and cell phone number, according to court documents.