A far-right militia called Oath Keepers showed up in Ferguson, Missouri, toting assault rifles Monday night. The St. Louis County police chief called their presence “both unnecessary and inflammatory.” “They just showed up, walking around carrying their assault rifles,” a local Democratic committeewoman told NBC News. As The Daily Beast’s John Avlon has reported, the group was created in the early days of the Obama presidency and distributed business cards saying, “We will NOT obey any order to disarm the American people.”
