Michigan Militia
The most well known militia, the paramilitary group Michigan Militia, first took root in the state in 1994, motivated by the standoff with federal agents at Ruby Ridge in 1992 and Waco in 1993. At its height, the group claimed to have thousands of members, but it’s unclear how many still have ties to the group.
The Michigan Militia was first brought to the spotlight after the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. The attack killed 168 people. Victims ranged in age from three months to 73 years and included three pregnant women. To this day, it remains the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history.
The most well known militia, the paramilitary group Michigan Militia, first took root in the state in 1994, motivated by the standoff with federal agents at Ruby Ridge in 1992 and Waco in 1993.
At its height, the group claimed to have thousands of members, but it’s unclear how many still have ties to the group.
The Michigan Militia was first brought to the spotlight after the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. The attack killed 168 people. Victims ranged in age from three months to 73 years and included three pregnant women. To this day, it remains the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history.
Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, the men who carried out the attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, were said to have attended Michigan Militia meetings. Nichols was born in Lapeer and attended Central Michigan University before dropping out and moving to Colorado.
Dr. JoEllen Vinyard, a retired EMU history professor, studied the Michigan Militia in the late 1990s and into the early 2000s. She said group was believed the Second Amendment was potentially at risk after the Ruby Ridge and Waco sieges.
“They were worried about guns taken away,” Vinyard said. “That was one of their major worries across all the different groups.” The early meetings of the Michigan Militia were attended by McVeigh and Nichols. Militia founder Norman “Norm” Olson testified before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Terrorism in 1995.
The most well known militia, the paramilitary group Michigan Militia, first took root in the state in 1994, motivated by the standoff with federal agents at Ruby Ridge in 1992 and Waco in 1993. At its height, the group claimed to have thousands of members, but it’s unclear how many still have ties to the group.
The Michigan Militia was first brought to the spotlight after the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. The attack killed 168 people. Victims ranged in age from three months to 73 years and included three pregnant women. To this day, it remains the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history.
The most well known militia, the paramilitary group Michigan Militia, first took root in the state in 1994, motivated by the standoff with federal agents at Ruby Ridge in 1992 and Waco in 1993.
At its height, the group claimed to have thousands of members, but it’s unclear how many still have ties to the group.
The Michigan Militia was first brought to the spotlight after the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. The attack killed 168 people. Victims ranged in age from three months to 73 years and included three pregnant women. To this day, it remains the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history.
Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, the men who carried out the attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, were said to have attended Michigan Militia meetings. Nichols was born in Lapeer and attended Central Michigan University before dropping out and moving to Colorado.
Dr. JoEllen Vinyard, a retired EMU history professor, studied the Michigan Militia in the late 1990s and into the early 2000s. She said group was believed the Second Amendment was potentially at risk after the Ruby Ridge and Waco sieges.
“They were worried about guns taken away,” Vinyard said. “That was one of their major worries across all the different groups.” The early meetings of the Michigan Militia were attended by McVeigh and Nichols. Militia founder Norman “Norm” Olson testified before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Terrorism in 1995.
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