organized militia

noun

1. a former military organization functioning under both state and federal authority.

Example Sentences

In issuing the Oath Keeper sentences this week, Judge Mehta repeatedly stressed that even those relatively junior members of the group who had not directly engaged in violence with the police had nonetheless increased the chaos during the riot by descending on the Capitol as an organized militia.

From New York Times

But prosecutors say that days before the attack, he posted a video recommending the use of “force” and referring to the Proud Boys as an “organized militia.”

From New York Times

“Trump lit the fuse on all of this, but he is kind of irrelevant now — it doesn’t matter if he runs for president. … Of course we want to stop Trump in any way possible, but we’ll still be facing these organized militia types or lone-wolf attackers in five to 10 years,” said one committee staffer.

From Washington Post

Prosecutors say Mr. Reffitt came to Washington with a fellow member of the Texas Three Percenters, a loosely organized militia movement that takes its name from the supposed 3 percent of the U.S. colonial population that fought against the British.

From New York Times

He denied that those captured were members of locally organized militia groups.

From Washington Times