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The John Brown Gun Club (JBGC), named after Torrington, Connecticut, abolitionist John Brown, is a decentralized network of self-proclaimed 'anti-fascists' who advocate for armed community defense.
The group was recently caught allegedly recruiting new members at Georgetown University with a flyer that featured a violent slogan linked to Charlie Kirk's murder -- “Hey, Fascist! Catch!” -- the slogan found on a bullet casing tied to Kirk's alleged assassin.
The bottom of the flyer said: “The only political group that celebrates when Nazis die,” and included a QR code to “join the John Brown Club”.
There is a Connecticut chapter of the JBGC which bills itself like this: "We’re a shooting sports club with abolitionist values. We are not a security agency. We are not a militia."
But the group does admittedly provide security.
“Most of our work at the JBGC involves providing security and community defense, organization and activism with Black Lives Matter, pro-choice groups, and LGBTQIA+ groups. We do work around specific acts of police oppression and sightings of white supremacist or other far right individuals or organizations in New England,” explained Dan, a founding member of the Connecticut JBGC, in 2022.
The group had amassed 14.3k followers on X before officially moving to Blue Sky where it has just 3.6k followers.
First things first -- it's a "shooting sports club" so members are encouraged to obtain the proper training.
CT JBGC recommends firearms training from "a comrade and a great instructor" at Cryosilver, an account on Blue Sky that features a Marxist fist.
Cryosilver's pinned post leads to Crossdraw Firearms which claims to provide "safe, accessible, and intersectional firearms training and education for all people in Connecticut."
Because if you're going to get firearms training, why not make sure it's from an intersectional social justice warrior?
Crossdraw listed two events in September 2025, including a four-hour class on getting a pistol permit, and a zoom session on firearms training.
While the CT JBGC says it's not a "security agency" or a "militia," it has provided "security" during drag shows, like this one in North Brookfield.
The group also "dealt with some harassers" at a couple of Waterbury Pride events.
While there, the CT JBGC covered up a tiny bit of graffiti it found offensive, but then celebrated graffiti the group liked, including messages like, "I Hate Jews" and "Arm the Queer" and "Death to Fascists".
The CT JBGC turned up to a 2023 event at Southern Connecticut State University with Kwame Shakur and the New Era Young Lords (NEYL), a radical Marxist group opposed to capitalism, racism, the patriarchy, and more.
Shakur credited CT JBGC with "holding down our security throughout several stops of this Principle Unity Tour" even though the group is "not a security agency."
After the October 6th attacks, the CT JBGC made it clear it did not empathize with Israeli victims, saying "we don't owe the settlers committing pogroms [sic] or the IOF our empathy, but nearly everyone else deserves it."
The CT JBGC has also teamed up with BLM 860 for protests.
CT JBGC even showed up to UConn in 2022 after the fall of Roe v. Wade, where one of the group's founders, Dan, was interviewed by the Daily Campus.
He said, “Connecticut has had a surprisingly long history of white supremacists. The Ku Klux Klan had thousands of members here in the 1920s, and the state only solved a court case on school integration this year. Policies of segregation still exist here, they just say it is a money issue instead of a race issue. So now that more conservative places are becoming open with their stupid white supremacist ideas, they think they won’t be opposed here.”
Dan encouraged people to actively doxx any alleged white supremacists so they face "quick and severe consequences" like losing their job.
Last year, the group used a "circa 1931 German Iron Front flag" for fundraising efforts.
"These flags were hung from windows, which is why the arrows face the way they do. We know some of our more hardline communist friends may object to the old Iron Front, but we hope you can see it as we do - as antifascist history and not an anti-communist stance," wrote CT JBGC on X.
The three arrows featured on the flag were later adopted by socialist and anti-fascist organizations, including Antifa.
Wonder what CT JBGC thinks of Antifa's new designation as a domestic terror organization?
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