Idaho bill would repeal law banning private militias. Here's how senators voted

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The Idaho Senate on Monday cleared a bill that would repeal a longstanding state law prohibiting private militias and paramilitary organizations.

The Idaho National Guard last year introduced similar legislation as part of an effort to clean-up unused state code. The anti-militia law is currently not enforced, but legal experts say removing the statute would limit obstructions to private militias. Similar statutes have been used to prosecute paramilitary activity in other states.

The state law forbids “a body of men,” other than the National Guard, to “associate themselves together as a military company or organization, or parade in public with firearms in any city or town” in Idaho.

The new version of the bill is sponsored by Sen. Dan Foreman, R-Moscow, a U.S. Air Force veteran and former Moscow police officer. Foreman said during a Senate debate Monday that repealing the statute would protect constitutional rights to assemble and bear arms.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/idaho-bill-repeal-law-banning-014247160.html

So long as they stay in their own state.

Back in the 80s there were several terrorist attacks in Washington state by the Idaho based Aryan church. One of them, Robert Matthews, was killed in a shootout with the FBI.

[Thomas Hurt]

1. The Order - robbed banks, murdered a Jewish radio host, Alan Berg in Denver.

Ruby Ridge standoff was in Idaho, I believe as well. Feds had a standoff with the Montana Freeman too.

Unfortunately, the rural NW has a history of christofascist terrorists.

Decades of these whackjobs running amok. Back when the sovereign citizens called themselves constitutionalists.

Grifters, blackmailers, racists, and murders the lot of them. Had some of these nutjobs in my hometown growing up, at least they never killed anyone.

[2naSalit]

2. All along...

The Canadian border from central Washington to the Great Lakes there are so many that it's hard to count them all.