FBI's updated report on "Militia Violent Extremists". Kamala Harris’s Clear Record on Gun Confiscation.

SurvivalBlog presents another edition of The Survivalist’s Odds ‘n Sods. This column is a collection of news bits and pieces that are relevant to the modern survivalist and prepper from JWR. Our goal is to educate our readers, to help them to recognize emerging threats, and to be better prepared for both disasters and negative societal trends. You can’t mitigate a risk if you haven’t first identified a risk. In today’s column, we look at The FBI’s updated report on “Militia Violent Extremists”.

FBI Considers Gun Owners Militia Violent Extremists

First up, over at Ammoland: FBI Document Leak: Gun Owners Are Violent Extremists. The article begins:

“Lawyer Stephan Stamboulieh on X (formerly Twitter) released more documents from the FBI’s symbol guide. This list seems to be an updated list of those previously released to the public. At the same time AmmoLand News received the same print outs.

The new terms added in this edition are “molon labe,” “prepping,” and “Second Amendment(2A).” The FBI says these terms can be signs of violent militia extremism. The document also says militia violent extremists (MVEs) might regard “red flag” laws, aka extreme risk protection orders (ERPOs,) as unconstitutional, but it isn’t just MVEs that think that. Many legal experts and civil libertarians openly oppose ERPOs for the lack of due process. Several lawsuits have been filed challenging such laws, and members of Congress have spoken out against “red flag” laws.”

J.B. Shurk on Daddy Government

An essay by J.B. Shurk at American Thinker: Daddy Government Is Afraid of His Rebellious Children.

USMC Uses Freelance OSINT on Warfighting Doctrine

Reader S.B. sent the link to this web page: 2nd Battalion 5th Marines. And here is an article about it, in The Marine Corps Times: Marine Corps infantry’s secret weapon: A $9.95 unofficial website.

Maine’s New “Yellow Flag” Law

Reader J.D. sent us this news from Maine: Law enforcement officers can now get a warrant to take someone into protective custody. JWR’s Comments: The author almost completely ignores the gross constitutional violations of Extreme Risk Protection Orders (ERPOs). They violate the constitutional right of due process and the foundational right to face one’s accuser in open court.

“Harris has repeatedly supported prohibiting and confiscating commonly-owned semi-automatic firearms, including America’s most popular rifle – the AR-15.

At a 2020 presidential campaign event in Londonderry, N.H. in September 2019, then-presidential candidate Harris told reporters that confiscation of commonly-owned semi-automatic firearms was “a good idea.” Elaborating on her support for a compulsory “buyback” program, the senator added, “We have to work out the details — there are a lot of details — but I do…We have to take those guns off the streets.”

On the September 16, 2019 episode of “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” Harris reiterated her support for gun confiscation. During a question-and-answer session, an audience member asked Harris “Do you believe in the mandatory buyback of quote-unquote assault weapons and whether or not you do, how does that idea not go against fundamentally the Second Amendment?”

The candidate responded, “I do believe that we need to do buybacks.” Making clear that she believes Americans’ Second Amendment rights are for sale, Harris added ‘A buyback program is a good idea. Now we need to do it the right way. And part of that has to be, you know, buy back and give people their value, the financial value.'”