Where I used to live, a bunch of asshats decided to form their own militia (during the Clinton years). It was mostly a collection of asthmatic accountants and 400-pound rednecks, but their local Fuhrer actually was dangerous. They all bought the biggest, shiniest guns they could find and swore mutual protection: when the jackbooted gubmint thugs came for any one of them, all the rest pledged to rally 'round and ambush the cops. This, they declared, would be the start of the REVOLUTION!
Then their leader, Major Headcase, got stopped by the cops for a busted taillight. Cops noticed the pile of guns in his back seat, discovered from a license check that he was a convicted felon (thus barred from owning guns at all), and took him away in cuffs. He went very meekly.
Cops searched his house and found an arsenal in the basement - all sorts of illegal shit like machine guns and RPGs. Surely this was the signal the First Regiment of Nutjob State Militia had been waiting for! Now was the time for them to fulfill their promises. They swooped down on their leader's house, surrounded the cops, seized the arsenal, busted him out of jail, and set up their own Free State which we have now all emulated.
Right? Right?
Nah. They unanimously pissed their pants and fled for the hills. The cops weren't even concerned with them, but they hid out for weeks, each quaking with fear and eager to disavow all their comrades. Eventually they crept back to town and resumed their humdrum lives.
Long tale, I know; but I rather suspect that just about everyone on The Firearms Forum could be interchangeable with the members of that "militia."