Who are these guys in Provo?

[jetfire]

That would be my guess. Unidentifiable except by members of their own group. This has been up all morning and nobody here seems to know who they are.

The dude who originally posted on twitter about them said he asked who they were with, and their leader(?) said "concerned citizens."

[wsr]

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Either way, they care enough about their country to actually show up and do something about it.

Thank you

[HCM]

I’m not real familiar with rifles, so please excuse if this is a dumb question: are they real?

Somebody mentioned Airsoft and I have heard the BB guns are extremely lifelike, hence my question.

Same question about the sidearms.

They appear to be real, no standardization though.

The Airsoft comment was a joke.

[HCM]

Wait, are we saying these guys are NOT .gov?

No they are not .GOV.

Look a little closer and you will see the weapons, armor etc are not uniform and they have no LE/police markings.

They are a little more uniform looking than most militia groups and they have someone familiar with Friend /foe ID TTPs but definitely not GOV/LE.

[BehindBlueI's]

Another tell for me is that none of them appear to be overweight or over-age.

I was thinking the same thing. Whoever they are they at least appear to have standards.

[HCM]

Another tell for me is that none of them appear to be overweight or over-age.

Definitely not cops then :-)

Hard to tell age with them all covered up in helmets and masks.

Baofeng etc type radios are very much a thing among both Airsoft /LARP groups and militia groups. They are not in any way exclusive to .GOV.

[Suvorov]

No they are not .GOV.

Look a little closer and you will see the weapons, armor etc are not uniform and they have no LE/police markings.

Plus I don't think any .GOV agencies issue rifles with pistol braces.

[Totem Polar]

If they’re just a bunch of regular dudes, they’re better funded than my set of regular dudes.

[RoyGBiv]

Curtis Sliwa would demand they wear berets

[MistWolf]

If you take a close look at the second photo, you'll see that there are at least three others carrying firearms. A woman to the right wears a pistol on her hip, a man on the left looks to be carrying a pistol at his hip and wears a black chest rig. There is a person mostly hidden by the man in cammies who appears to be carrying an AR.

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