In March, after a bill to ban dozens of firearms classified as “assault weapons” became public, gun control opponents created a Facebook group to coordinate their efforts, with the aim of convincing lawmakers to vote down the measure.

The group, Delaware Gun Rights, gained more than 20,000 members in three days and became a fixture at Legislative Hall over the ensuing three months.

In the end, the assault weapon measure, as well as several other bills gun rights advocates saw as overreaches (or worse) failed, partly due to the vocal opposition expressed by some Delawareans.