The National Rifle Association is promoting an article that suggested “radical” Democrats will attempt to confiscate firearms in the United States and trigger a civil war where “the survivors of the Democrat rebellion” are ultimately hanged.

In an October 17 post, conservative gun blogger Bob Owens claimed that if the “radical left” attempts to “impose their ideas on the American people” -- which Owens claims includes gun confiscation -- “it would end poorly and quickly” for them after they are confronted by “armed free citizens.”

Owens has previously fantasized about civil war breaking out in the United States and has responded to Media Matters documentation of his rhetoric by writing that he hopes the “propagandists” at Media Matters “feel threatened.”

Owens began his October 17 article with an image of gallows and the caption, “This is where the survivors of the Democrat rebellion will meet their end.” His article was promoted by the NRA on social media.

Writing, “I merely hope that we get to the 2016 elections,” Owens nonetheless described a scenario where gun confiscation supported by Democrats starts a civil war. Owens warned, “We do not want a civil war against the radical left wing of the Democrat Party, but let it be made abundantly clear that if they start one, they will be utterly destroyed by armed free citizens, as the Founders intended” :