And Jeronimus, I think you should be more concerned about the satellites trained on YOUR OWN house. I wouldn’t want to see you locked up for sedition, ha ha ha.

I bet there are spy satellite videos showing Schaeffer Cox spitting on the sidewalk and littering, if these charges don’t stick.

Second, these groups tend to be rife with defective types. This is a natural element of fringe groups. They attract people who are outcasts, and on the other side of the equation, they tolerate these people because they need numbers.

Lastly, and most importantly, if the US military did ever turn on the citizenry, most of these militia types would be rounded up in the dead of night while they were sleeping. If they even got the chance to “fight”, it wouldn’t be much of a fight at all. As I often put it, “Good luck taking down those predator drones, Apaches, and Abrams tanks with your converted Mini-14.

They are not in fact, grenades, explosive or otherwise, as the article implies. Instead, they are a cluster of (usually) eight 0.22LR barrels contained in a single unit loaded into the launcher. As such they fire eight small rimfire cartridges. Not grenades.

That being said, the grenade launcher itself would require a Destructive Device license, which I doubt Barney possessed. As such, the launcher, though not the HN round, was illegal.

I hope that cleared things up.

(That being said, I am currently trying to dissuade a friend of mine, who happens to be a rabid Ron Paul supporter, from joining one of his local militias in Ohio. Can anyone recommend where I might turn for help in this endeavor? I very much doubt he would engage in seditious behavior, but I don’t want to see anything unpleasant befall him. Thank you.)

That doesn’t mean I would put it past a militia to do such a thing, however. I am just saying that it gives me doubtful feelings for them to just come up with an assload of new evidence weeks after they were told that most of the old evidence was inadmissable.