The tide turns in the battle for gun rights as the Brady Campaign withers away

Detroit Gun Rights Examiner ^ | June 4, 2010 | Rob Reed

[Neil E. Wright]

The tide turns in the battle for gun rights as the Brady Campaign withers away

As gun rights activists await the upcoming decision in the McDonald vs. Chicago Supreme Court case, new evidence emerges that, in this post-Heller decision world, the public has soured on the bitter taste of gun control.

The latest evidence of the declining public support for restrictions on gun rights is in the data released today by the Federal Election Commission on the private donations and expenditures of the Brady Campaign to End Gun Violence - Voter Education PAC (Link goes to actual FEC reports).

The Brady Campaign to End Gun Violence is the flagship group for the gun control effort. The Brady Campaign absorbed the Million Mom March in 2001 when that organization's membership dropped so low as to be no longer self-sustaining.

[Neil E. Wright]

Click the link to read the whole article. It is delicious!!!

BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

★ FREEDOM! ★

[Obadiah]

Cash on hand as of January 1, 2010:

$9,990.52

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

...And revolution is coming if a lot of other things don’t get fixed.

[TheConservativeParty]

Good news ping!

[Red in Blue PA]

People are waking up.

Finally!

[BuckeyeTexan]

I’ll just never forget the MSM interview of a small-town Texas Sheriff back when the Brady Bill was being debated. They set him up to look like a big, dumb hick in his ten-gallon hat and bolo tie with his legs kicked up on his desk.
When the reporter asked him how gun control would make his job easier, he drawled “We ain’t got no gun problem down here. Last guy kilt ‘round yere was beat-ta-death with a
rock!”

P.R.I.C.E.L.E.S.S.

[Erik Latranyi]

Unfortunately, as evidenced by people like Mayor Bloomberg, true believers in gun control now have endless amounts of public money to pursue their evil ambitions.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

****The Brady Campaign absorbed the Million Mom March in 2001 when that organization’s membership dropped so low as to be no longer self-sustaining.******

For twenty years they were on a roll! People were giving up their guns like never before, as the police would protect them!

Then four aircraft were hijacked by muslims with boxcutters, and when people woke up and saw they were the targets of muslims, they came to their senses real quick and decided that maybe they needed those guns and “assault rifles” for personal protection after all!

[OneWingedShark]

>People are waking up.
>
>Finally!

Then do you think they’d be receptive to this idea:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2529409/posts

[Psalm 144]

They have still done a lot of damage. Brady is still invoked on a daily basis to confiscate firearms from citizens upon the mere ALLEGATION of domestic violence, etc.

Not a damn thing proven, simple accusation.

[Psalm 144]

Yes it is.

[snowsislander]

The 2010 election cycle is still ongoing, but the numbers look no better: So far only $2,500 has been raised and just $4,545 spent.

If that's correct, I believe that the moribund Temperance movement is actually doing better than the Brady campaign.

Now for the big push: repeal of the 1968 GCA.

[rellimpank]

--and they haven't given up, they're just waiting for the right circumstances-

-in the meantime, they will continue to use every legislative and judicial avenue possible to thwart legitimate firearms owners--see the latest BATF ruling and the California state legislature for examples---

[AAABEST]

Information provided by the Center for Responsive Politics , and derived from the FEC reports, shows that the Brady Campaign to End Gun Violence - Voter Education PAC, raised an all-time high of over $1.7 million in the 2000 election cycle and distributed over $1.6 million of those funds.

Contrast this to the more recent 2008 election cycle where the PAC raised just over $15,000 and spent just over $54,000.

The 2010 election cycle is still ongoing, but the numbers look no better: So far only $2,500 has been raised and just $4,545 spent.

Browsing through the charts and information at the Center for Responsive Politics shows fewer gun control advocates willing to spend their own money on that agenda. In the 2000 election year cycle 320 individual donors gave a total of $329,996. Contrast that to 2008 where three donors donated a total of $15,000.

So far, for the 2010 election cycle, only one donor has made a single contribution of $2,500.

These figures are absolutely devastating to this organization. They can't buy politicians, create disinformational ads or pay anyone to run anything.

They are - for all intents and purposes - DEAD IN THE WATER.

[rarestia]

Oh man! GCA repeal would be super sugary sweet. It would mean nails in many gun-banner group coffins! Additionally, we would be incrementally large steps closer to original intent second amendment protections. None of the tax stamp garbage.

[Psalm 144]

Those donations statistics are sweet!

I think similar stats are at work in the leftist defeats in New Jersey and Massachussetts.

[Larry Lucido]

Neil, this is important enough to post in full. The site is not on the excerpt list. And if I were writing on this subject I would want it out there unexcerpted. Besides, the site is fraught with popups even in a good browers.

Here, allow me.

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Will a As gun rights activists await the upcoming decision in the McDonald vs. Chicago Supreme Court case, new evidence emerges that, in this post-Heller decision world, the public has soured on the bitter taste of gun control.

The latest evidence of the declining public support for restrictions on gun rights is in the data released today by the Federal Election Commission on the private donations and expenditures of the Brady Campaign to End Gun Violence - Voter Education PAC (Link goes to actual FEC reports).

The Brady Campaign to End Gun Violence is the flagship group for the gun control effort. The Brady Campaign absorbed the Million Mom March in 2001 when that organization’s membership dropped so low as to be no longer self-sustaining.

Information provided by the Center for Responsive Politics , and derived from the FEC reports, shows that the Brady Campaign to End Gun Violence - Voter Education PAC, raised an all-time high of over $1.7 million in the 2000 election cycle and distributed over $1.6 million of those funds.

Contrast this to the more recent 2008 election cycle where the PAC raised just over $15,000 and spent just over $54,000.

The 2010 election cycle is still ongoing, but the numbers look no better: So far only $2,500 has been raised and just $4,545 spent.

Browsing through the charts and information at the Center for Responsive Politics shows fewer gun control advocates willing to spend their own money on that agenda. In the 2000 election year cycle 320 individual donors gave a total of $329,996. Contrast that to 2008 where three donors donated a total of $15,000.

So far, for the 2010 election cycle, only one donor has made a single contribution of $2,500.

As the Brady Campaign goes, so does public support for gun control. That’s why the huge drop in funds raised, money spent, and individual donors is so telling.

The conclusion is clear: The public no longer believes the gun control lies. Now is the time to work to get that message to the government by redoubling efforts to elect pro-gun candidates and kick out those politicians who would deny us our basic human rights.

[Red in Blue PA]

And that is why that will be proven to be Unconstitutional someday.

[Red in Blue PA]

Bears shouting:

Now for the big push: repeal of the 1968 GCA

[Winged Hussar]

“The Brady Campaign absorbed the Million Mom March in 2001 when that organization’s membership dropped so low as to be no longer self-sustaining.”

Correction: the Million Mom March liquidated after I personally broke its back by sending columnist J.R. Labbe information on its misuse of 501(c)(3) tax exempt money to support political campaigns. http://www.stentorian.com/2ndamend/mmm/ for details. (Pro-2nd Amendment activists Jim March and Najda Adolf delivered the coup de grace to the MMM in 2001.)

http://www.stentorian.com/2ndamend/mmm/form990.html for the MMM’s highly creative Form 990 tax return to the IRS. I recall sending this information to the IRS as well, and it is quite possible that the MMM liquidated to avoid the alternative of being publicly stripped of its 501(c)(3) status for misconduct.