With over 1200 patriot groups in this country, "I looked the other night out of curiosity", you have very little to worry about being on a forum that discusses guns. If you are alarmed about that then you would be wrong as much of what people say on forums is just talk. The lists of people that the government is really interested in have deeper roots than just discussing guns and or questions about guns or gun laws, and ammo being hard to get. The facts below show what the government Is more likely to be focused on rather than a group of people who collect and hunt with firearms, and if they were being that petty, everyone with a ccw or any permit for a weapon permit would be on that list, which would be half the country.
And people who have illegal guns or are likely to be a little off, are less likely to converse with others on a regular basis , on a forum which may be monitored. THR has a very high standard when it comes to what they will and won't allow, many forums don't, I honestly believe that you would be mistaken to be concerned about any theoretical discussions you have here.
now if you were a card carrying member of "some" of the groups mentioned below, you can be pretty sure your actions would be monitored.
http://www.splcenter.org/get-inform...ng/active-patriot-groups-in-the-united-states
The Southern Poverty Law Center identified 1274 anti-government “Patriot” groups that were active in 2011. Of these groups, 334 were militias, marked with an asterisk, and the remainder includes “common-law” courts, publishers, ministries and citizens’ groups.
As for confiscation, the powers that be, also know that you are very unlikely to have the same guns that you had 30 to 50 years ago, and god only knows where they are now, Honestly I have none of the guns I had in 1972, or 1992 so there really I no need to fret about things like this. Up until know you may have gone through a 25-100 guns that you no longer own, nor can possibly know where they are, especially if you have been shooting for 5 decades. It's like any hobby, even cops and agents trade up or sell off their weapons.
As far as disusing politics, just turn on the TV and you will hear a heck of a lot more volatile discussions that we have here.
Or look a t some of the videos on utube, where people are actually showing how to manufacture illegal weapons and worse. I wonder how they get away with that.
I think that you should contact your representatives if you feel they are not representing you in a manner you approve of, or you are contributing to the problem instead of the solution, or don't complain about it here.
