As they say - Only in America!
We've seen this all before (some armed lunatic fringe on some warped ideological crusade wants a gunfight with US Federal authorities) and it never ends well.
did you actually read the article and the background on this situation before labelling it a lunatic fringe on some ideological crusade?
perhaps they are nutters, but they are probably nutters who have had a gut full of the way they are treated by a corrupt government and their agencies.
This is, after all, a government, who at the will of their corporate masters, send armed federal agents to raid farmers who have the audacity to sell raw milk to customers who seek it out, in a manner as if they were raiding a drug cartel.