Some of the gun politics folk on Usenet now refer to _hoplophilia_ and _hoplophobia_, from Greek _hoplon_, "weapon."
Does anyone actually know people who are involved with militias? I met Bo Gritz long ago, and my personal experience of the breed and its witnesses leads to me to believe it's another bit of romanticism greatly enlarged by the mass media. There may be little or no there there (speaking pragmatically; I'm not reflecting on the philosophical validity of their concerns).
Gordon