BuzzFlash: How the GOP Is Legitimizing Far-Right Paramilitary Groups
Political Research Associates (PRA), a Massachusetts-based research organization, describes The Three Percenters (aka 3%ers, III%ers, or “Threepers”) as “a Patriot movement paramilitary group that pledges armed resistance against attempts to restrict private gun ownership. Adherents and supporters have been associated with threats and acts of violence. Like other Patriot groups, they depict the federal government as tyrannical. Their name refers to the (disputed) percentage of American colonialists who took up arms against the British during the Revolutionary War.”