Reply #12: First, SGAUS: the website says "membership or affiliation with a defense force is not required

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for SGAUS membership." If you click on their chapters link, you get a page saying "There is one key element that is necessary to accomplish our mission of bringing a Home Guard system into existence: People. How do we get enough people involved?" and clicking for more information can access a pdf file ("chapters.pdf") that explicitly mentions one state (South Carolina).

I have already noted above that materials on the SGAUS website indicates sympathies with the rightwing Minuteman movement. And the "Home Guard" language quoted above is quite informative, because groups like "Ohio Defense Force - Home Guard" are extremist militia groups; see http://www.adl.org/learn/Events_2001/events_archive_by_year.asp?XStateArc=OH&Year=2005

SGAUS is a private organization and its existence is distinct from any state statute issues.