The National African American Gun Association, known as NAAGA, has tripled its chapters from 14 to 42 since President Donald Trump’s inauguration. "Some of the things that we were seeing in the news, a lot of the things that the President was saying, and the reactions that we saw from a lot of members of the white community - not everyone but more white supremacists - it seemed like having some form of protection was a good thing for us to have", says Dominic Holleman, a member of NAAGA's Denver branch. Now NAAGA are promoting gun ownership as something more fundamental than just a means of defence in uncertain times. For many black Americans, exercising the Second Amendment is part of the Civil Rights struggle. "Some of the first gun control laws that came about in this country were related to race", says Douglas Jefferson, Vice President of NAAGA. And following the NRA's failure to speak against the police shooting of legally armed Philando Castile in 2016, NAAGA is keen to emphasise the link between possession of arms and racial equality. "Without that right, it’s very hard to assume a position of a fully-fledged citizen in these United States", says Jefferson.