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Kinda. It’s a reference to the SA. It’s become a shorthand for fascist paramilitaries that haven’t seized power, so like one could call the proud boys brownshirts.
But it’s regional because they only wore brown in Germany. Italy had the blackshirts and Americans wore silver.