PICTURED: Lauren Boebert's family during late-night Capitol tour before Stop the Steal rally - and three weeks before January 6

Firebrand, gun-toting Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert reportedly gave an after-hours tour of the Capitol on December 12 - three weeks before the January 6 Capitol riot and before she was sworn in as a lawmaker.

The tour occurred on a Saturday night, when the Capitol complex was closed, according to a Salon report, and it’s not clear how it was authorized since she was not yet a sitting member of Congress.

The December 12 tour included a stop at the top of the Capitol dome, an exclusive location only available to tours hosted by members themselves and an official Capitol tour guide. 

Neither guide nor sitting member seem to be present, but the 34-year-old congresswoman's son and mother can be seen in a photo with a Capitol Police officer at the top of the dome. 

Guidelines stipulate that member-led tours are to occur weekdays between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m., and there are only eight reservations per day allowed up to the dome. 

The tour also included the staircase in the Senate’s empty Brumidi Corridors, Senate Room S-127 and the Senate briefing room.

Boebert's son, pictured here in the Brumidi Corridors, received the tour the tour three weeks before Jan. 6 on a Saturday night, when the Capitol complex is closed

The Dec. 12 tour included a stop at the top of the Capitol dome, an exclusive stop only available to tours hosted by members themselves and an official Capitol tour guide. Here Boebert's son and mother are pictured with a Capitol Police officer 

When asked about the specifics of the Dec. 12 tour, Boebert called the new report 'false.'

Boebert told DailyMail.com: 'First, Representative Cohen falsely and recklessly accused me of giving a so-called ‘reconnaissance tour’ of the Capitol. Then, Rep. Jayapal filed an ethics complaint against me. My family received death threats because of such wild accusations from the left. Now, Salon is pushing this false story in what amounts to nothing more than clickbait. Here are the facts. The House Ethics Committee cleared me of these unfounded accusations, no reconnaissance tour occurred, and Salon continues to be a lying rag.'

Democratic Rep. Pramila Jayapal, Wash., in March requested the Ethics Committee investigate Boebert along with Republican Reps. Mo Brooks of Alabama and Paul Gosar of Arizona. Jayapal cited accusations of the trio 'instigating and aiding' the deadly riot. The Ethics Committee declined to investigate the claims. 

Boebert, who has consistently fought for her right to carry a gun on the House floor and has expressed support for the QAnon conspiracy theory, and tweeted the day of the Capitol riots that 'Today is 1776.'

'What a day got a private tour of the Capital and even was able to go to the top something that most staff don’t even get to do,' Boebert's son Tyler wrote on Instagram, along with photos of himself in the Capitol. 

In a comment under the post, he wrote of Washington, D.C.: 'people are a**holes over here.' 

The tour calls to mind accusations that Boebert gave ‘reconnaissance’ tours in the days leading up to the Capitol riot. Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., said on CNN in January he saw the congresswoman ‘taking people for a tour sometime after the 3rd and before the 6th. I remember the day, we were walking in a tunnel and we saw her... and she had a large group with her.’

‘Now, whether they were people that were involved in the insurrection or not, I do not know …’ Cohen added. ‘But it is pretty clear that ... she's not on the home team. She was with the visitors.’

Some Democratic members suggested that Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol were abetted by members of Congress who took them on a tour of the building before Jan. 6 to survey the layout.

In a comment under the post, Boebert's son, pictured here in the Capitol rotunda, wrote of Washington, D.C.: 'people are a**holes over here.'

The tour included the staircase in the Senate’s empty Brumidi Corridors, Senate Room S-127 and the Senate briefing room, where Boebert's son is pictured above

In a comment under the post, he wrote of Washington, D.C.: 'people are a**holes over here'

‘This claim is absolutely disgusting,’ Boebert told Fox News at the time. ‘It's offensive. I had my family in the Capitol on January 2nd. I brought my four sons, my mom, my husband, aunts and uncles to look around the Capitol. And then on the 3rd, we took some photos together before I was sworn in. My family left that day.’

Meanwhile, Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, D-N.Y., said on MSNBC in January that another lawmaker had told him he saw a member of Congress giving suspicious tours the day before the riot.

'My understanding is there was a member showing people around. And that was the reason that when the person who relayed that story to me objected, you know the answer comes Well, they're with a member of Congress. So this issue right is that if a member of congress wants to do it, traditionally, it has been assumed to be safe,' Maloney said, as he referenced lawmakers 'who believe in conspiracy theories and who want to carry guns into the House Chamber.' 

'Rep. Sean Maloney made false and baseless conspiracy claims about me that led to death threats and hundreds of vile phone calls and emails. His comments were extremely offensive, shameful and dangerous,' Boebert wrote in a subsequent tweet. She wrote to Maloney later telling him he had 'implied' she was the one who gave a suspicious Capitol tour.

Boebert, who has consistently fought for her right to carry a gun on the House floor and has expressed support for the QAnon conspiracy theory, and tweeted the day of the Capitol riots that 'Today is 1776' 

Boebert has gone on defense to fend off accusations that shehad any involvement in the Capitol riot on Jan. 6 

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Boebert has consistently denied any involvement in the attack. She drew the ire of Democrats at the height of the Capitol attack when she tweeted: 'The Speaker has been removed from the chambers.' 

' accuse me of live-tweeting the Speaker’s presence after she had been safely removed from the Capitol, as if I was revealing some big secret, when in fact this removal was also being broadcast on TV,' Boebert later said of the tweet. 

Boebert objected to election results certified by states that voted for Joe Biden shortly before the House abruptly recessed as a mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol. 'I have constituents outside this building right now, and I promised my voters to be their voice,' she said on the floor. 'They know that this election is not right, and as their representative, I am sent here to represent them.'