They are going to come after your USPSA club
From the minds of Blue State Senators: FOLLOWING JANUARY 6TH ANNIVERSARY, SENATOR MARKEY AND CONGRESSMAN RASKIN INTRODUCE LEGISLATION TO STOP PRIVATE PARAMILITARY ACTIVITY
Washington (January 11, 2024) - Following the anniversary of the January 6th attack on the United States Capitol, Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Congressman Jamie Raskin (MD-08) introduced the Preventing Private Paramilitary Activity Act, legislation that would create a federal prohibition on paramilitary groups through civil and criminal enforcement. The prohibition would hold individuals liable who directly engage in certain types of conduct, including intimidating state and local officials, interfering with government proceedings, pretending to be law enforcement, and violating people’s constitutional rights, while armed and acting as part of a private paramilitary organization.
The legislation creates different tiers of criminal penalties based on whether violations result in injury or property damage; provides harsher penalties for repeat offenders; and allows for a probationary sentence for first-time offenders. It also creates civil remedies by authorizing the Department of Justice to seek injunctive relief against paramilitary activity, and by creating a private right of action for individuals harmed by paramilitary activity to seek injunctive relief and/or damages. The legislation contains clear exceptions for activities such as historic reenactments, state-sanctioned trainings, and veterans’ parades.
Specifically, the legislation would prohibit the following dangerous conduct:
publicly patrolling, drilling, or engaging in harmful or deadly paramilitary techniques
interfering with or interrupting government proceedings
interfering with the exercise of someone else’s constitutional rights
falsely assuming the functions of law enforcement and asserting authority over others
training to engage in such behavior
Note the bolded text. Who doesn't believe that IDPA, USPSA, 3-Gun, Tactical 2-Gun, PSCL, Service Rifle, or any other action or precision shooting competitions wouldn't be considered "training to engage in such behavior" by certain politicians and law enforcement. Did you go to Gunsite Academy, Thunder Ranch, The SIG Academy? Clearly you were training in paramilitary activity. The potential for abuse of this law is ridiculously high. They've used J6 as an excuse to do so many tyrannical and unconstitutional activities, using it as an excuse to shut down practical firearms training and competition seems like something they would absolutely do.