Did a group of "radical libertarian NRA members" face off with ICE agents and their vehicles in Oregon, daring them to move an inch toward them? No, that's not true: A viral message making that claim in the wake of the Minneapolis shooting of a woman by an ICE agent originated on a satirical X.com account. There were no actual news reports about such an event happening in Oregon.
The X post (archived here) was published by The Halfway Post on January 9, 2026 and read:
BREAKING: A group of radical libertarian NRA members in Oregon are reportedly open-carrying AR-15s and standing in front of ICE vehicles with smiles on their faces and daring the agents to move an inch toward them.
The post appeared shortly after a woman was shot and killed by an ICE agent (archived here) in Minneapolis on January 8, 2026.
This is what the post looked like at the time of writing
(Image source: The Halfway Post on X.com)
According to the post's edit history (archived here), an earlier version read:
BREAKING: A group of radical libertarian NRA members in Oregon are reportedly open-carrying AR-15s and standing in front of ICE vehicles and daring the agents to move an inch toward them with smiles on their faces.
The Halfway Post has a bio (archived here) that reads:
Dadaist graffiti news. Halfway true comedy and satire for your doomscrolling by @DashMacIntyre. I don't report the facts, I improve them.
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A search on Google News for articles with the terms NRA, ICE, AR-15 and Oregon brought up no coverage (archived here) of any such incident.
