A team of 40 FBI agents held an 11 year-old at gunpoint while raiding her family's Georgia home during a probe into the US Capitol riots, it was claimed. 

The agents - who arrived in four armored vehicles - descended on the property about five miles north of Covington in Newton County on August 10, the girl's father Donnie Hyatt told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Hyatt and his wife are said to have links to a far-right militia leader called Chris Hill, and attended the January 6 'Stop the Steal' rally in Washington DC. They insist they did not join in the subsequent storming of the Capitol building.  

Hyatt said he was in his car on his long driveway when the agents came to raid the property around 7am, and says electronics and communications devices including phones as well as computers were seized. 

'They had my 11-year-old daughter at gunpoint,' he told the outlet. 

The agents' laser sights were aimed at her, he said, and she is 'pretty shaken' by the experience: 'She still shakes when she talks about it.' 

While the agents had a warrant to converge upon the property, Hyatt said that it was for a sealed investigation, and that they did not divulge many details to the frightened residents. 

Members of the FBI refused to provide comment when contacted by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Hyatt said that although he and his wife attended Donald Trump's January 6 'Stop the Steal' rally outside the White House, he contends that they did not join the subsequent siege on Congress.