My militia group vs. president of Brady Campaign, on Fox News.

[Balog]

I really like that unit patch, esp in a shirt pocket location. Subdued, classy, meaningful. Man, we need a thumbs-up smilie on here...

[kgbsquirrel]

Cool patch, digging the White Rose symbolism. Why's the acronym SMVM instead of SEMVM though?

[Declaration Day]

Southeast is one word.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/southeast

[Viking]

That's par for the course as far as the media is concerned.  Read any article about the UK's strict gun control and subsequent low gun crime, and you'll find mentions of their extremely high knife and assault crimes suspiciously absent.

Gun crime isn't exactly rare in the UK either from what I've read.

[kgbsquirrel]

Southeast is one word.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/southeast

And the abbreviation for that ordinal direction is SE. 

[Declaration Day]

And the abbreviation for that ordinal direction is SE. 

True, but given that our symbol spells out "Southeast" as one word, it was a judgment call.  The acronym reflects that.  Had we not spelled out our unit's name in the circumference of the patch / symbol, it would have been "SEMVM".  That was discussed years ago.

[Stevie-Ray]

Hmmm....any militia groups up around the AuSable/Oscoda area? I'm going to be moving up there soon and I might be interested in talking to them.

[Declaration Day]

I own our private training ground, and it happens to be located just twelve miles from the Ausable River Valley area, in eastern Ogemaw County.

Email me: DeclarationDay@yahoo.com.

[taurusowner]

Declaration, GREAT choice in symbols with the White Rose. 

[Declaration Day]

Thanks!  It isn't new though, we've been using it for 13 years.

[richyoung]

Oh, another thing that I think might help with public perception:  Voluntarily "registering" guns with local police.

Not all of them, and it shouldn't be mandatory for joining the group, but submit a list of guns that your guys have that match up with what the local and state PD is trained on.  Let 'em know they can borrow them if need be in an emergency.  And open up the ammo stocks to 'em too.  Be pretty cool to wave a paper around in one hand explaining with the data on it.  Would help re-enforce the "we're not anti-government" angle a bit.

Might not be the best idea in the world.  Just an idea.

No.

Hell no.


This idea ranks right up there with deciding to try to set a speed record on the Titanic's maiden voyage through an iceberg field.....