Flyers posted at Georgetown University appear to advertise a new chapter of the John Brown Gun Club, a left-wing and “anti-fascist” extremist group that first formed in Kansas. One of the flyers calls on prospective members to “do something more than symbolic resistance.” Another touts the chapter as the “only political group that celebrates when Nazis die” and includes the “Hey, fascist! Catch!” phrase that accused Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson inscribed on one of his bullets.
The flyers were posted on Georgetown’s Village A complex, a popular on-campus student housing center for upperclassmen, as of Wednesday afternoon, the Washington Free Beacon can confirm. QR codes posted on the flyers lead to a Google form that includes the message: “We’re building a community that’s done with ceremonial resistance and strongly worded letters. If you want to make a real change in your community, let us now [sic] below.” Both the form and the flyers reference the “John Brown Club,” an amended version of the group’s name that omits the word “Gun.”
It’s unclear who posted the flyer or whether the chapter has already taken shape at the school. But the apparent recruitment effort comes amid high-profile incidents of left-wing violence, from Robinson’s assassination of Kirk to recent attacks targeting ICE facilities to the killing of two Israeli embassy workers outside of the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., earlier this year.
A Georgetown University spokesperson told the Free Beacon that the school “has no tolerance for calls for violence or threats to the university.”
“The flyers have been removed and the university is investigating this incident and working to ensure the safety of our community,” the spokesperson said roughly one hour after the Free Beacon photographed the flyers on campus.
The John Brown Gun Club was formed in Topeka, Kan., in 2002, but chapters have since emerged across the nation. A chapter in the D.C. area launched in 2022, according to its social media accounts, though it is unclear if it is connected to the group that posted flyers at Georgetown.
That chapter’s X account was active as recently as September 2022. Two months earlier, it doxxed several Maryland residents protesting outside of a “Drag Queen Story Hour” event in Silver Spring.
It has also leveled threats at the Supreme Court, writing, “The supreme court justices should not know a moment of comfort.” Like other John Brown Gun Club chapters, the D.C. affiliate encourages its members to own and train with firearms, at one point tweeting, “‘no one needs an AR-15’ is an interesting thing to say in a country full of fascists.”
Around the same time, also in July 2022, the chapter advertised “community self defense for trans and queer folks.” Robinson confessed to murdering Kirk in texts sent to his transgender roommate and romantic partner, while a man who attempted to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Nicholas Roske, now identifies as a transgender woman and goes by “Sophie.”
Some John Brown Gun Club chapters have embraced political violence.
On July 4, 11 members of the Texas-based Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club opened fire on an ICE facility in Alvarado, Texas. The group’s ringleader, Benjamin Song, trained left-wing activists in hand-to-hand combat and “large-scale gunfights,” according to the Washington Post.
The Elm Fork chapter initially formed around transgender rights issues but had recently embraced other “anti-colonial” causes, according to its website.
According to the Counter Extremism Project, a club member in Puget Sound firebombed an ICE facility in Tacoma, Wash., in July 2019. He was killed by the police during the attack.
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