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When Money From Anti-Gun Billionaires Wasn’t Enough, Gun Control Orgs Went After Taxpayer Dollars
ShootingNewsWeekly ^ | 2/11/25 | Larry Kane

Posted on 02/13/2025 10:31:06 PM PST by CFW

Gun-owners are getting exactly what they voted for with President Trump. There’s now an accounting for government malfeasance in process and he’s turned up the receipts.

President Trump is delivering on his promise to break open the secretive spending habits of government officials. It’s exactly what voters wanted and, frankly, expected. The results, however, have been jaw-dropping. Gun control proponents have been smashing open the government piggy bank to swipe dollars for their pet gun control projects.

That’s right. Gun control advocates were using taxpayer dollars to fund their campaigns to rob Americans of their Constitutionally-protected rights to keep and bear arms. That’s adding insult to injury after the Biden-Harris administration installed a taxpayer-funded office dedicated to pushing gun control. It was staffed by a former lobbyist for Everytown for Gun-Safety, the gun control group funded by antigun billionaire Michael Bloomberg. That office effectively closed up in the days leading up to President Trump taking office as its staff all resigned.

It turns out, though, that billions of Bloomberg bucks and even more money from George and Alexander Soros weren’t enough for gun-control advocates. They wanted to fund the effort to cut off Second Amendment rights straight from Americans’ wallets – including tax dollars paid by gun owners themselves.

Lee Williams uncovered, in a post to Shooting News Weekly, what many have suspected for years. Except it had been covered up in layers of bureaucracy and farmed out as “grants” through the U.S. Agency for International Development. That’s the federal agency that’s drawn the first and damning examination by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.

Receipts

Williams’ deep dive into USAID money showed that Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety, along with Giffords Courage to Fight Gun Violence, were primary beneficiaries of tax dollars to fund their gun control efforts. ......

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; bloomberg; constitution; fiduciarymalfeasance; fiduciarymisconduct; fraudwatch; gifford; giffords; gungrabbers; michaelbloomberg; misappropriation; racketeering; usaid
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Government bureaucrats use our tax dollars to fund groups dedicated to taking away our Constitutional rights. I believe groups such as Giffords' should be forced to return our money. They use the amount of money they receive to pretend they have support of the majority of the people. They don't. They just have the support of the bureaucracy.
1 posted on 02/13/2025 10:31:06 PM PST by CFW
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Bkmk


2 posted on 02/13/2025 10:33:56 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within ? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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Greedy gun control nut cases have been smashing open the govt
piggy bank to swipe dollars for their pet gun control projects.


3 posted on 02/13/2025 10:34:02 PM PST by Liz
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Sedition.
Pure and simple.
NO MORE tax dollars to propaganda!


4 posted on 02/13/2025 10:45:38 PM PST by Ex gun maker. (Free thinking is now a radical concept, I will not be assimilated by PC or EV group-think!)
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It keeps getting worse. USAID was killing our rights. We were paying for the theft of our freedoms.


5 posted on 02/13/2025 10:51:21 PM PST by madison10 (Great. Stupid judges got me stress eating again .)
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I have a feeling that the Soros bunch will feel a huge pinch, once USAID funds are cut off.
I suspect ol’ George has had his fingers deep into the taxpayer’s pockets for a considerable length of time.


6 posted on 02/13/2025 11:06:05 PM PST by Fireone (1.Avoid crowds 2.Head on a swivel 3.Be prepared to protect & defend those around you 4.Avoid crowds)
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To: GOPJ; poconopundit; Jane Long; Diana in Wisconsin; Grampa Dave; Godzilla; Vaduz; null and void; ...

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7 posted on 02/13/2025 11:37:56 PM PST by Liz
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bttt


8 posted on 02/13/2025 11:40:06 PM PST by Pajamajan (Pray for our nation. Never be a slave in a new Socialist America.)
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OK, I read the article and looked at the flow charts that tracked the money.

I read earlier that DOJ was going to after drug companies, medical journals, medical boards with RICO lawsuits.

I think that Bloomberg, Soros, and all the middle men that laundered USAID money to gun control groups should also be considered organized crime.

9 posted on 02/14/2025 12:40:38 AM PST by Robert357
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Wow. It’s not just our tax money, it’s being taken from our kids, grand kids, via deficit spending borrowed money.

Build more gallows.


10 posted on 02/14/2025 12:42:37 AM PST by Professional ( )
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“I believe groups such as Giffords’ should be forced to return our money”

Her beady eyed husband must be up to his neck in this. I hope we can pick off his Arizona seat when he is up for re-election. Creep.


11 posted on 02/14/2025 2:01:49 AM PST by DAC21
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Yep. USAID was using taxpayer money to violate both their first and second amendment rights. People need to be sent to prison for this.


12 posted on 02/14/2025 2:30:02 AM PST by FLT-bird
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Dude needs a bag on his head and a long flight.
The Russia or Hungary


13 posted on 02/14/2025 3:16:14 AM PST by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: Robert357

I think that Bloomberg, Soros, and all the middle men that laundered USAID money to gun control groups should also be considered organized crime.


I agree.


14 posted on 02/14/2025 3:20:46 AM PST by CFW
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“I have a feeling that the Soros bunch will feel a huge pinch, once USAID funds are cut off.
I suspect ol’ George has had his fingers deep into the taxpayer’s pockets for a considerable length of time.”


For years, we’ve been complaining about Soros using his millions to undermine our nation’s freedoms and prosperity.

We were wrong.

He has been using OUR millions to undermine our nation’s freedoms and prosperity.


15 posted on 02/14/2025 3:23:17 AM PST by CFW
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“I have a feeling that the Soros bunch will feel a huge pinch, once USAID funds are cut off.
I suspect ol’ George has had his fingers deep into the taxpayer’s pockets for a considerable length of time.”


For years, we’ve been complaining about Soros using his millions to undermine our nation’s freedoms and prosperity.

We were wrong.

He has been using OUR millions to undermine our nation’s freedoms and prosperity.


16 posted on 02/14/2025 3:23:17 AM PST by CFW
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To: madison10

“The only restriction written into the Second Amendment is a restriction on legislating restrictions” L.Star


17 posted on 02/14/2025 3:51:34 AM PST by Qwapisking ("The left will rue the day they cheated Trump out of the 2020 election forever" L.Star )
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Damn them. I’m not surprised, but damn them anyway.


18 posted on 02/14/2025 5:24:05 AM PST by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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Isn’t that close to what Marx said? Something about making us pay for the rope that they will hang us with?


19 posted on 02/14/2025 5:26:00 AM PST by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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Death to traitors.


20 posted on 02/14/2025 5:32:10 AM PST by MrBambaLaMamba (אני עומד לצד ישראל. The only good commie is one that's dead - Country Joe McDonald )
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