Democrats Bring Bill to Prohibit Armed Citizen Militias

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According to the lawmakers, the legislation clarifies that โ€™these domestic extremistsโ€™ paramilitary operations are in no way protected by our Constitution.โ€™

Democrat lawmakers are advancing legislation intended to prevent privately organized paramilitary and militia group activities within the United States.

Introduced by Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) on Thursday, the bill dubbed the โ€œPreventing Private Paramilitary Activity Actโ€ would prohibit privately organized groups from โ€œpublicly patrolling, drilling, or engaging in harmful or deadly paramilitary techniques,โ€ โ€œinterfering with or interrupting government proceedings,โ€ or โ€œinterfering with the exercise of someone elseโ€™s constitutional rights,โ€ according to Mr. Markey.

Their bills defines a โ€œprivate paramilitary organizationโ€ as โ€œany group of 3 or more persons associating under a command structure for the purpose of functioning in public or training to function in public as a combat, combat support, law enforcement, or security services unit.โ€ The bill states acting with or on behalf of such a private paramilitary organization while armed with a firearm, explosive, incendiary device, or other dangerous weapon, and engaging in patrolling, training, interfering with government or constitutional rights, or assuming the functions of law enforcement without official authority.

The bill makes exceptions for members of the National Guard and other military reserve components, state guard forces, and members of other federal or state-organized groups to train in and apply paramilitary, law enforcement, and security service activity. The bill also allows for the organization of groups formed solely to conduct military reenactments, โ€œbona-fide veterans organization with no intent to engageโ€ in the aforementioned prohibited activities, and students in government or state-authorized educational institutions that teach military science.

Lawmakers Bring Bill in Response to Capitol Breach

Mr. Markey and Mr. Raskin introduced their legislation just days after the three-year anniversary of the breach at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, a point they repeatedly referenced in a press release announcing the bill.

โ€œPatrolling neighborhoods, impeding law enforcement and storming the U.S. Capitol, private paramilitary groups like the Oath Keepers, the Three Percenters and the Proud Boys are using political violence to intimidate our people and threaten democratic government and the rule of law,โ€ Mr. Raskin said. โ€œOur legislation makes the obvious but essential clarification that these domestic extremistsโ€™ paramilitary operations are in no way protected by our Constitution.โ€

Byย Ryan Morgan

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