Frank Langfitt

And the handcuffing of a U.S.

senator.

Charles worries that ordinary citizens like him could eventually be targeted.

That civil unrest that you expect would be triggered by the president or the administration through rhetoric?

I did more than 30 interviews over seven months, and I talked to new gun owners, people who help run gun clubs for those on the political left, as well as firearms trainers and academic researchers.

And Aisha, I found a lot of evidence that more liberals, people of color like Charles, and LGBTQ folks are buying guns out of fear.

This is just a small sample of what I heard from gun clubs and trainers.

I've never seen a surge like this before.

That was David Phillips.

He's on the training team of a group called the Liberal Gun Club, followed by Hope, who helps lead the Socialist Rifle Association, and Thomas Boyer with the San Francisco chapter of the Pink Pistols.

The Pink Pistols motto is, armed gays don't get bashed.

Now, I should add that many of the gun owners I talked to for this story, like Charles, they didn't want their full names used.

They're afraid of being harassed or worse.

They provide a haven for liberals to train and learn about guns.

The Liberal Gun Club, for example, has chapters covering 38 states.

The club's been around for more than a decade and a half.

And Phillips told me that club membership has grown by two-thirds since November.

That's from 2,700 members to 4,500 members.

And requests for training have quintupled.

Phillips says people coming for training have the exact same fears that we just heard from Charles.