Personally, I think those that want to do their "auditing," whether it be for 1A or 2A reasons or any other, are just maybe a step or a half-step below the "sovereign citizens." In almost every case, they seem to be trying to provoke encounters with authority, mostly to get themselves "known" on YouTube.
A wrong encounter could put them in a grave where there is no YouTube to watch.
I totally agree. They are looking for YouTube fame and just using the 2nd to try and get it. Personally when one gets himself killed I will not feel sorry for him or blame the cops. Like the one cop proved, there is no telling from a distance if the stupid fool had a rifle or a pistol, was a mass shooter waiting to kill cops, or some idiot trying for fame.