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A 1999 US Department of Justice analysis of the potential militia threat at the millennium conceded that the vast majority of militias were reactive (not proactive) and posed no threat. [15] By 2001, the militia movement seemed to be in decline, having peaked in 1996 with 858 groups. [ 16 ]
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) identified 334 militia groups at their peak in 2011. It identified 276 in 2015, up from 202 in 2014. [ 1 ] In 2016, the SPLC identified a total of 165 armed militia groups within the United States.
The current United States Code, Title 10 (Armed forces), section 246 (Militia: Composition and Classes), paragraph (a) states: "The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention ...
While members of some such groups believe such militias are approved or endorsed by law, particularly by the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution, they are in no way public authorities or organized military or National Guard units of the country or their state. They are private citizens, in voluntary association, and self-funded.
By the 20th Century, 43 states had made carrying guns in public places illegal, with the strongest and strictest gun laws in frontier towns like Dodge City, Tombstone, and Deadwood.
The right of the whole people, old and young, men, women and boys, and not militia only, to keep and bear arms of every description, and not such merely as are used by the militia, shall not be infringed, curtailed, or broken in upon, in the smallest degree; and all this for the important end to be attained: the rearing up and qualifying a well ...
The Three Percenters are a militia organization that believes in citizens mobilizing against tyranny, according to the Anti-Defamation League, a national anti-hate organization.
WASHINGTON — Four California men who were associated with the "Three Percenter" militia group and convicted in connection with the Jan. 6 Capitol attack were taken into custody Friday after a ...