All members are required to have a firearms license and Blakeman has ... PIX11 asked Blakeman if his civilian militia could be used to crack down on civil rights demonstrations.

United States is the only country in the world where civilian guns outnumber people ... the suicides by firearms in the US add up to 44% of global suicides by firearm in 2019, it said.

In effect, there are 120 weapons for every 100 US citizens and according to researchers from the Swiss organization Small Arms Survey even when the exact number of civilian firearms is difficult ...