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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. [2] [3]
The Michigan Militia is a paramilitary Michigan-based organization founded in 1994 by Norman Olson, a veteran of the U.S. Air Force. [8] The group was formed in response to perceived encroachments by the federal government on the rights of citizens. It is part of the wider American militia movement. [9]
Conceptually, a citizen's militia has been defined as a constitutionalist private army meeting regularly to practice combat skills and discuss weapons. The militia is defined as social groups practice "skills within a distinct territory, are not always anti-government, and have some opinions regarding use of terrorism to further militia goals."
A Detroit-area man linked to an anti-government group and arrested just before the 2022 election was sentenced to a year in prison Monday for gun-related crimes. Timothy Teagan had attended ...
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Members of anti-government paramilitary groups discussed kidnapping Virginia’s governor during a June meeting in Ohio, an FBI agent testified Tuesday during a court ...
A jury in Michigan started its deliberations Monday in the trial of four men accused of designing a plan to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. Adam Fox, Barry Croft Jr., Daniel Harris and Brandon ...
Nichols' anti-government views developed and grew over the years. [6] Nichols spent most of his adult life in the Lapeer and Sanilac County areas of Michigan where mistrust and resentment of the federal government was common, especially after bank foreclosures of many farms during the 1980s. [28]
Many members are former or current members of the military, police and other law-enforcement agencies, as well as anti-government groups such as the Oath Keepers. [ 1 ] The movement was co-founded by Michael "Mike" Brian Vanderboegh [ 15 ] from Alabama, a member of the Oath Keepers, a group with whom the Three Percenters remain loosely allied ...