In an effort to ensure gun rights, several Virginia counties are now forming militias.
WSLS-TV reports a pro-Second Amendment gathered to see if they could get county support for a militia at the Franklin County Board of Supervisors meeting on Tuesday.
'We hope to get a militia formed for Franklin County,' said William Dyer, executive member of the Virginia Citizens Defense League.
A militia muster call is a move we’ve seen in other counties, like Floyd County, back in January. More than 100 people there used the militia muster call as a way to educate the community.
The Nelson County Times reports the Board of Supervisors has been asked to support a militia muster.
The proposed resolution would provide the board of supervisors a means to call for a muster of the unorganized militia in Nelson County.
According to Virginia state code regarding the composition of a militia, the militia “shall be divided into three classes: the National Guard, which includes the Army National Guard and the Air National Guard; the Virginia Defense Force; and the unorganized militia.”
The proposed resolution also would give the county oversight of the unorganized militia.
Virginia's Southwest Times reported on a militia muster that took place on Sunday:
Pulaski County’s first Home Guard “muster” took place Sunday afternoon at the Connection Church in Newbern. The meeting was organized by Jody Pyles, pastor of the church, and Gary Hughes, who wrote the original Second Amendment Sanctuary resolution which was largely adopted by the Pulaski County Board of Supervisors in their Dec. 2019 meeting.
WSET-TV reported on a militia muster that took place in Bedford County Saturday.
Residents of Bedford County organized a militia muster call to bring volunteers together to protect their Second Amendment rights.
An organizer of the muster said this is a way to protect Second Amendment rights and the residents of Bedford County on Saturday.
'If we don't do it, amongst ourselves, who's going to do it for us?' said Richard Thornhill, a Bedford County Resident. 'The government is not doing it right now.'