Opinion By Larry Keane
Gun owners are getting exactly what they voted for with President Donald Trump. There’s an accounting for government malfeasance. He’s turned up the receipts.
President Trump is delivering on his promise to break open the secretive spending habits of government officials. It is 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 campaign to rob Americans of their Constitutionally-protected rights to keep and bear arms. That’s 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. This office effectively closed up in the days leading up to President Trump taking office as the staff all resigned.
Turns out, the billions of Bloomberg bucks, or money from George and Alexander Soros, weren’t enough for gun control advocates. They wanted the effort to cut off Second Amendment rights to come straight from Americans’ wallets – including those tax dollars paid by gun owners themselves.
Lee Williams uncovered it, in a post to AmmoLand News, of what many have suspected for years.
Except it was covered up in layers of bureaucracy, farmed out as “grants” through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). That’s the federal agency that’s drawn the first and damning examination by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
The 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. That money was funneled through NEO Philanthropy, which also funneled money to support Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) programs too.
The flow chart of money laundering is a labyrinth of middlemen, which reports that no tax dollars are spent. But that’s not true. A little digging shows that nearly $7.5 million were funneled to Bloomberg’s Everytown, mostly through donations paid to NEO Philanthropy, including $245,000 from the Board of Trustees of the Lelan, $150,000 from the Tides Center (a George Soros organization), $12,000 from Civicus World Alliance, $300,000 from the Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and a whopping $6,748,000 from Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
The maze of money shuffling is being mapped out by DataRepublican.com. That site offers tools to track how tax dollars moved to gun control groups. That includes the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, which took in $12,809,748 in contributions, which started with the Consortium for Elections and Political Process Strengthening reporting $186,143739 in taxpayer funds that was moved through many as five layers of “charities” to fund their efforts. Bloomberg’s March for Our Lives, showed $1,407,153 in donations that started with $165,142,739 in taxpayer funds. Sandy Hook Promise, a Connecticut-based gun control group, reported $1,417 049 us taxpayer funds in their coffers, according to DataRepublican.com. Everytown’s mapping shows $31,802,725 in contributions with $4,963,214 in grants. DataRepublican.com shows Giffords with $8,292,189 in contributions, that started with the same Consortium for Election and Political Process Strengthening tax dollars, moving through, again, at least five layers of charities.
Look Who’s Talking
This unmasking of citizens’ tax dollars being put to work against their Constitutional rights is raising the ire of those who – surprise, surprise – want to use more tax dollars to swipe away Second Amendment rights. U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) claims President Trump’s efforts to bring accountability to taxpayer expenditures is “attempting to seize control of power, and for corrupt purposes,” according to The Hill. U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) said “This illegal, unconstitutional interference with congressional power is threatening lives all over the world,” according to another report in The Hill.
Shakespeare wrote in Hamlet, “The lady doth protest too much, methinks.” Those politicians crowing about the secretive manipulation of tax dollars against the interests – and the very rights protected by the Constitution – should be a five-alarm bell for taxpayers, not just gun owners. It might also pull back the veil of why these same lawmakers rail against the Dickey Amendment that states, “none of the funds made available for injury prevention and control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may be used to advocate or promote gun control.” NSSF reported in 2022 that an investigative report by The Reload showed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was likely violating that law as recently as then.
A federal judge temporarily blocked Elon Musk’s DOGE from accessing government systems to dig up the wasteful and damaging money laundering of tax dollars after 19 Democratic state attorneys general, led by gun control advocate New York State Attorney General Letitia James, sued.
To pull another line from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.” Or in this case – Washington, D.C.
Web Database Exposes Funding of Anti-gun Nonprofits, Charities
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The judge “ruled” musk isn’t allowed to investigate the crimes! That judge just committed another crime for which he must be jailed. He is aiding and abetting a criminal enterprise. All such judges must be removed and jailed. Every dollar must be clawed back from these gun grabbers, with fines, steep, stiff fines added on!
Fraud perpetrated against US citizens by government employees, need to find out who and jail them, and claw back money from “charity” and put them out of business
NEO and all the tentacles need to loose tax free status
Many of us on this site have always known the width & depth of the waste, fraud, and abuse. What we lacked (untill now) was hard proof!
it is amazing how hard these progs are fighting to keep the corruption, waste, fraud and abuse of taxpayer funds going on in this country. they don’t seem to care that they are wasting our money, siting confidentiality, which has been compromised by our own government on a monthly basis due to hacking by foreign powers.
term limits to get these pieces of swamp scum out of d.c. and stop them from giving themselves raises and retirement packages that we have to pay for.
The dept of deceit being revealed is mind boggling.
Few things make a genius/nerd happier, than a puzzle to solve.
think how nice it would be to get the cons out of congress
If the total amount of FIT paid does not cover the amount that the rich politicians and bureaucrats should have paid on their fortunes, then they evaded income taxes!! That is shear genius!!
If you follow the money further, I’m sure you will find that many of these organizations fund the Democrats – “WHO are crying the loudest”
I hope more people keep waking up (NOT a reference to ‘wokism’) to the many decades of corruption, graft, and deceipt by the people we repeatedly re-elect to ‘serve’ in Congress. Our willing stupidity and capacity to hurt ourselves is apparently nearly infinite. The reason we don’t have term limits is ‘We the People’ are supposed to be smart enough to immediately vote the corrupt creatures out of office. Of course that REQUIRES the media must ever remain objective Truth seekers AND Truth tellers, and they have failed us on all counts for years upon years. Anyone reading this…please consider… Read more »