It also produced a mountain of fallout, which tended to collect in stinking piles around the militia movement. A lot of people expected this movement to suffocate and die as a result. They couldn't have been more wrong.
Nobody is really certain about membership numbers.
Militias aren't in the habit of publishing member lists, after all. Indeed, if the number of active militias is any indication, the movement has probably quadrupled. In October of 1995, after raffling off a shotgun, the 1st Brigade Northwest Florida Militia officially disbanded. And it's not like they've changed their thinking about things. They're still here.