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TIL Posse Comitatus, an old federal law gives sheriffs the power to form militia's. Only a few states still have the law in full effect it. Last used in 1994, when 100 citizens or "armed volunteers" were tasked by the sheriff to search house to house to find bank robbers. They were done by dinner.

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