Yes, let's all agree there is no such thing as "brandishing" regarding a firearm in Colorado law. Mea culpa. Would a reasonable person believe the manner in which those individuals are carrying their rifles while confronting presumably non-threatening, non-violent citizens as menacing? Probably. Enough to get a conviction? Who knows? I learned a long time to never second guess what a jury will or won't do.

Would said individuals in the vehicles been prudent to have a firearm of their own ready to use, even to being held out of sight of observers? Those protesters have long left the right to be considered "peaceful" somewhere along the trail. If those protesters keep on their path I fear things will go bad in short order.