Members of armed groups that call themselves constitutional advocates have arrived in a Montana town to support an owner during an ongoing dispute with the U.S. Forest Service concerning a federal mining claim. Members of the groups Oath Keepers, Pacific Patriot Network and 3% of Idaho — which gets its name from the 3 percent of Americans who fought in the Revolutionary War — have come to Lincoln to begin a security operation at the White Hope Mine east of the town, according to the Helena Independent Record. The groups say that the mine claim held by George Kornec predates the 1955 regulations that granted surface rights to the Forest Service and instead falls under an 1872 law that would grant both surface and subsurface rights to Kornec/Associated Press. More here.