What do you call a group of gun owners?

[Ouade5]

hee hee… not the folks on this forum.

[Scott52]

In light of everything, I’m going with, pretty pissed off!

[Gonzo333]

Unassuming

[Ouade5]

I like that. We don’t call them anything, because they’re doing a good job concealing their firearms.

[Michael525]

How about a “force” of gun owners?

[Karacal]

Hello and welcome @Michael525

[Luddite_Vic]

Welcome to the community @Michael525

[Johnnyq60]

Welcome to the family brother @Michael525 and you are in the right place at the right time.

[DEFENDER]

“DEFENDERS”

This helps with the Legal Battle - Sure to Follow.

ie “WE” "Dont “Want” to even have to shoot anyone. Much less kill someone.

But WILL - If "Forced-To ".

[David38]

These days, ENDANGERED.

[DS-1]

Threatened even. And by no less than… well, you know, the thing.

[DS-1]

I never did hear, did we arrive at a consensus for naming a group of gun owners?

should we give up and just call it that? a consensus? that too would seem fitting enough.

[Ouade5]

It would be a “gunsensus.”
And no, we never agreed on a term.

[DS-1]

Ha Ha, I respectfully submit that a “guncensus” is what the ATF wants to have, regardless of laws passed to the contrary. One of the most miserable things about the times we are seeing now in this country, is the open, blatant disregard, and disrespect through actions, of the laws we have, so that those same people can enforce laws they choose and like. To say that it’s wrong is an understatement of epic proportions. It’s like a game warden poaching his own wildlife while he prosecutes everyone else who does it.

It should be on every news cast to rival the coverage of the Apollo moon mission, and yet so complicit is the media that the sound of the circkets is almost deafening.

Not much surprises me, but the fact that Americans seem to be standing still for this leaves me in near disbelief when I see that they have no sense of alarm about the juggernaut barreling down on them.

[Ouade5]

@DS-1

It’s like a game warden poaching his own wildlife while he prosecutes everyone else who does it.

That’s essentially how our representatives in Congress write their bills, to ensure that they are excluded from the rules that everyone else has to follow.

[KURT17]

How about “A Constitution” of gun owners? Think about it - the word covers a wide range of subjects, ideas, etc.

[BRUCE26]

@BRUCE26

I think this is the best descriptor and reasoning yet.

This is the first time Amos2 has posted — let’s welcome them to our community!

Amos2

16h

We don’t need to reinvent the wheel here. It’s always been militia. The problem is not us. It is the government that wants people to do what they are told without questions. This is not what we were supposed to be. We were a republic in the beginning. They slid in the democracy and you didn’t even see it. We need more education on what is in the constitution and the bill of rights as they were written not as they want to interpret them.

I think if you went back and counted “Militia” has the most votes.

[Bryan113]

I would call a group of gun owners…. Prepared!

[Arnie_W]

State Defense forces are the organized Militia. 16 to 65 anyone who is able bodied. Unorganized I believ is the avg folks walking around. Somehow years ago someone tried to turn the name Militia into a dirty word. Alot of states still have one.

[Ouade5]

Not many, though. I recently read an article, I think it’s far less than half the states with an organized state defense force. The problem is that they’re either very expensive for states to maintain, or they’re an unreliable, all-volunteer force. I’ll see if I can find that number for you.

EDIT: found it. Nearly every state authorizes a state defense force, but only 21 states & territories actually have one.
National Guard : June 2022 (nationalguardmagazine.com)