Since the Confed frowned upon an armed populace, there weren't a lot of folks with guns.

On 20 June 1792 the armed populace invaded the hall of the Assembly and the royal apartments in the Tuileries.

"Clearly, we could not leave Lod's hostile and armed populace in our rear."

Don't annoy an armed populace.

I am in charge of the armed populace, and General Skate commands the Calde's Guard.

"You mean," said Riva Freifeld, a public-television producer who called herself a gun-owning feminist, "an armed populace."

Federalist Noah Webster argued that an armed populace would have no trouble resisting the potential threat to liberty of a standing army.

Hoste and Harper both agreed that use of the local armed populace would make do for the final stages of the siege.

Advocates of the individual-right interpretation typically argue that an armed populace is the best defense against the tyranny of our own government.

That right is under constant attack by omniscient social engineers who recognise the danger of dictating to an armed populace.