Frank Langfitt

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.

And Aishi, it's not just liberal gun groups who are saying this.

Even traditional Second Amendment groups say they see more liberals seeking gun training out of fear.

This is Taylor Rhodes.

He works for the National Association for Gun Rights.

Well, I reached out to the White House, of course, and spokeswoman Abigail Jackson, she dismissed this reporting and she called it disingenuous.

And I'd like to read you a part of the statement that she sent me.