Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 25, 2025 / 17:18 pm
United States Secretary of Education Linda McMahon announced that police are investigating a number of posters displayed on Georgetown University’s campus that appear to be recruiting students for a leftist gun club linked to violence.
“I am aware of the appalling posters that were displayed on Georgetown’s campus today,” McMahon wrote in a post to the social media platform X on Sept. 24.
The flyers found around the Jesuit campus advertise for students to “Join the John Brown Gun Club,” a left-wing and “anti-fascist” extremist group that first formed in Kansas. The network of clubs around the country takes its name from the 19th-century abolitionist John Brown.
One of the flyers makes references to words allegedly written on a shell