- Source: Puget Sound John Brown Gun Club
The Puget Sound John Brown Gun Club (PSJBGC) is a Puget Sound Area gun club, formerly affiliated with Redneck Revolt. During the George Floyd protests in June 2020, the group attended the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone in Seattle.
The club calls itself an "anti-fascist, anti-racist, pro-worker community defense organization". The Guardian has called it an "anti-fascist armed leftist group" that "provide[s] security against rightwing aggression".
Willem van Spronsen, a former member of the club, attacked the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in Tacoma with incendiary devices in July 2019 while armed with an AR-15 rifle. He was killed by Tacoma Police Department officers in the attack.
The club has counter-protested Patriot Prayer marches in Seattle.
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Holloway, Kali (September 3, 2017), "6 gun groups that aren't for white right-wingers – The Second Amendment is finding appeal left of center", Salon, 1. Redneck Revolt and John Brown Gun Club
Kim Kelly (June 14, 2020), "Meet the Gun Club Patrolling Seattle's Leftist Utopia", The Daily Beast, Though everyone from Trump to local cops have expressed fear about the idea of anti-brutality activists being armed, they say it's essential to ward off dangerous extremists.
Jack Crosbie (May 18, 2023), "Anti-Fascist. Armed to the Teeth", Rolling Stone, John Brown Gun Club and Socialist Rifle Association
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