Bloombutt may never go broke, but at least making him use his own cash instead of ours is better.

After Trump Cuts BSCA Funds to Anti-Gun Orgs, Bloomberg’s Everytown Steps in to Fill the Void.

Washington’s swamp never runs out of ways to waste your money. But this time, for once, a major artery of anti-gun spending has been cut off — and gun owners have reason to breathe a little easier.

The Trump Administration has officially ended millions in federal grants created under John Cornyn’s Bipartisan Safer Communities Act — a law that gun owners across the country warned from day one would become a backdoor gun-control slush fund.

The cuts hit the so-called Community Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative, a DOJ program Cornyn helped create with Biden in 2022. CVIPI’s stated mission sounds harmless enough — “supporting community-based solutions to reduce gun violence.” But in practice, it became a pipeline of taxpayer cash flowing straight into organizations that push red flag gun confiscation, “ghost gun” bans, and gun tracing programs that amount to backdoor registration.

The CVIPI Problem

When Cornyn and his Democrat allies rammed through the BSCA, they sold it to gun owners as “fundamentally important to the country.” In reality, it pumped hundreds of millions of dollars into Washington bureaucracies and “community-based organizations” with political ties to the gun control lobby, much like a domestic USAID-style money laundering scheme.

These were the same groups working hand-in-hand with anti-gun legislators in blue states to advance red flag laws, promote so-called “untraceable gun” bans, and build databases of firearm ownership under the guise of “tracing.” In other words, the federal government was bankrolling the civilian disarmament industrial complex.

That’s why Texas Gun Rights fought Cornyn’s BSCA from day one. We warned that once the money started flowing, it would end up in the pockets of the same radical organizations that hate the Second Amendment. And we were right.

Cui Bono?

Recipients of Cornyn’s CVIPI funds included groups openly advocating for gun-control frameworks. Organizations like Youth ALIVE! and others in California publicly promote red flag laws and tracing mandates. Others, like Cure Violence Global and Chicago CRED, work hand-in-hand with state officials to support “public health” approaches to gun ownership that treat the Second Amendment as a disease.

Now, the Trump Administration has finally put an end to this taxpayer-funded nonsense, slashing off millions that were funneled into these anti-gun operations.

Enter Everytown, Bloomberg’s Cash Machine

Of course, billionaire Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety couldn’t stand to see their allies lose funding. Within weeks of the cuts, Everytown announced they were funneling over $2 million into “community organizations” that lost their CVIPI money.

Let that sink in. The same organization that’s spent years lobbying for gun bans, “red flag” confiscation laws, and national gun registration is now handpicking and financing the exact same groups that had been feasting on your tax dollars.

So when the DOJ says CVIPI is about “violence prevention,” it’s worth asking: if Bloomberg’s Everytown is funding the same recipients, what kind of “prevention” are we really talking about?

Why It Matters

Gun owners know what “red flag” laws mean — confiscation without due process. We know what “ghost gun” bans mean — criminalizing home-built firearms and hobbyists. And we know what “gun tracing” means — a federal backdoor registry waiting to happen.

All of it is unconstitutional. All of it is dangerous. And all of it was made possible by John Cornyn’s partnership with Joe Biden on the BSCA. The same BSCA that gave the ATF its “engaged in the business” rule — a sweeping new power that treats ordinary Americans as gun dealers, forcing them into a de facto universal gun registration scheme.

Fighting Back

Thankfully, there are fighters ready to undo Cornyn’s damage. Congressman Wesley Hunt has announced plans to file legislation repealing every shred of gun control from the BSCA. And Attorney General Ken Paxton is in the trenches suing the ATF to shut down its unconstitutional “engaged in the business” rule.

That rule never passed Congress. It was enabled by the BSCA, and it’s being wielded to destroy the private sale of firearms in America. Meanwhile, Cornyn is dodging the cameras and pretending none of this ever happened, as if Texans have forgotten that he gave Biden his biggest gun control win in 30 years.

We haven’t.

The No-Compromise Truth

This is why Texas Gun Rights exists — not to please politicians, but to hold them accountable when they betray gun owners. We don’t compromise with gun control. We expose it, dismantle it, and fight it tooth and nail. Whether it comes from Biden, Bloomberg, or a “Republican” senator from Texas — the result is the same: our freedoms are under attack.

And we’ll never stop fighting to defend them. Because at the end of the day, you shouldn’t have to sacrifice your safety or your rights to satisfy the swamp. Not in Texas. Not anywhere.

 

Chris McNutt is president of Texas Gun Rights.

How Richmond Is Rewriting the Story of Gun Violence — One Student at a Time

““There is no public safety without guns. If guns didn’t exist, yes,” said Ra-Twoine Fields. “But we live in America, where there are more guns than people. So no, there is no public safety without guns. What we can do is learn how to manage it, how to live with it responsibly.”

Fields, a firearms instructor, armed security guard, and PhD student at Saybrook University is also the founder of The Holistic Agency and Crenius, two initiatives linking creative expression, public safety, and community healing. Crenius channels art into civic engagement; The Holistic Agency takes a culturally informed approach to defensive, medical, and mental-health training, treating self-protection and wellness as parts of the same system.

He doesn’t speak for shock value. This is the foundation of his work: teaching young people not to fear the world they live in, but to survive it safely.

Fields helps lead Control the Narrative, his philosophy for harm reduction and violence prevention in Richmond. The approach is rooted in community-violence intervention (CVI) meeting those most at risk where they are, interrupting retaliation, and connecting them to counseling, job training, and other supports. He’s adapted those principles locally through The Holistic Agency’s Weapons Program, a five-week course for teens in Henrico County and Richmond who have already encountered the justice system.

The goal isn’t punishment. It’s understanding why they carry and helping them imagine a life where they don’t have to.

 

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 2023 data: Other causes of death to minors are still more than firearms.

For those under 18, vehicle deaths are consistently greater than those from firearms. When you use the FBI murder data, the vehicle deaths exceed the firearm deaths for 2019, 2020, 2022, and 2023 and likely 2021, though the FBI data isn’t available for that year.

About 72% of the firearm murders for those under 18 involve 15, 16, and 17-year-olds. So that would be 40% of all the firearm deaths. About 57% of those involving 16 and 17-year-olds. That is 32% of all firearm deaths. These deaths are largely gang-related and even banning guns is unlikely to stop drug gangs from getting a hold of guns to protect their extremely valuable drugs.

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 Alleged yuppie jihadis, 19, from Montclair, NJ, plotted Boston bombing-style attack, planned to join ISIS: feds

Two upper-crust student athletes from tony Montclair, New Jersey, are accused of participating in an ISIS-inspired terror ring — with one of the suspects allegedly plotting a Boston bombing-style attack, the feds said Wednesday.

Tomas Kaan Jimenez-Guzel and Milo Sedarat, both 19, were arrested on Tuesday, with both teens living in $1 million-plus Victorian houses in the manicured New York City suburb.

The accused yuppie jihadis both grew up in privilege before allegedly turning to ISIS.

Milo Sedarat holding up a red, white, and black Air Jordan sneaker.
Tomas Kaan Jimenez-Guzal and Milo Sedarat (above), both 19, were arrested Tuesday and charged with attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist group.

Jimenez-Guzel’s mother, Meral Guzel, serves as head of the United Nation’s Women’s Entrepreneurship program, and Sedarat’s father, Roger Sedarat, is an award-winning Iranian American poet and a professor at Queens College in New York City.

Guzel has been with the UN for more than a decade working on women empowerment projects, according to her LinkedIn account, with the mother previously working in the finance sector.

Roger Sedarat, who teaches poetry and literary translation for Queens College’s MFA program, is best known for his works celebrating the written history of his father’s native Iran and Persian poetry.

Neither parent could be reached for comment on Wednesday.

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SCOTUS Slates Several More 2A Cases for Consideration in Conference

The Supreme Court has already granted cert to two separate cases dealing with Second Amendment issues, and I think there’s a strong possibility the justices will agree to hear at least one more 2A-related challenge this term.

So far the Court has decided to address the constitutionality of Hawaii’s “vampire rule” prohibiting concealed carry on private property unless expressly allowed by the property owner and the federal law barring unlawful users of drugs from possessing firearms, but next week the justices will also consider four cases in conference that all have to do with the Second Amendment rights of 18-to-20-year-olds.

The lawsuits involve challenges to the federal prohibition on handgun sales to adults under 21, Florida’s law banning all gun sales to under-21s, and Pennsylvania’s ban on concealed carry for under-21s (which turns into a total prohibition on carry for young adults when the state’s open carry law is suspended during a state of emergency).

Given the circuit court splits on the issue, I believe there’s a real possibility the Court will hear one or more of these cases. But there are other live issues pending before Court, and the November 21 conference will feature almost a half-dozen of them.

Four of the cases slated for the November 21 conference are prohibited persons cases; not challenges to Section 922(g)(3) and its ban on unlawful drug users owning guns, but taking on 922(g)(1)’s prohibition on gun ownership for anyone who has been convicted in any court of a crime punishable by more than one year’s imprisonment; and 922(g)(5)(A), which bars unlawful aliens from possessing firearms.

In addition, the Court has scheduled Duncan v. Bonta for its November 21 conference. That’s the challenge to California’s ban on so-called “large capacity” magazines. The Ninth Circuit has upheld the law, including the provision requiring existing owners to destroy their magazines, turn them over to law enforcement, permanently modify them to comply with California’s 10-round limit, or remove them from the state.

The appeals court, though, has stayed enforcement of that portion of the law. If the Supreme Court denies cert, it’s almost guaranteed that the Ninth Circuit would lift that stay and California could start prosecuting anyone found in possession of “large capacity” magazines, even if they lawfully purchased them.

I’d love for the Court to hear each and every one of these cases, but that’s not a realistic possibility. The Court could end up holding on to one or more of these cases pending the outcome in Wolford v. Lopez and U.S. v. Hemani, though I don’t know that either of those cases would have much of an impact on the constitutionality of California’s mag ban.

In one final bit of SCOTUS news, the lead attorney challenging Hawaii’s “vampire rule” in Wolford v. Lopez is asking for help from gun owners in order to “pay for historians, documents, affidavits, and the mountain of legal costs” associated with a Supreme Court challenge. If you’d like to help attorney Alan Beck and the plaintiffs in Wolford, you can contribute to a GiveSendGo campaign. As of Wednesday afternoon Beck had raised nearly $40,000 of his $65,000 goal, and more than 400 patriots have contributed to the cause. Hopefully we can add to the number of donors and fully fund the campaign so that Beck can deliver the strongest arguments possible in the upcoming round of briefing and oral arguments next year.

Almost 1.3 Million Background Checks for Gun Sales in October

According to national background check data, Americans picked up over a million firearms last month, again.

October saw no less than 2,289,774 background checks logged by the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System. That is on par with the 2,298,383 checks done in October 2024.

After the National Shooting Sports Foundation crunched the data to remove gun permit checks and rechecks, the adjusted figure for likely retail sales stood at 1,299,312, which remains on par with the October 2024 NSSF-adjusted NICS tally of 1,302,857.

It should be noted that last October was on the cusp of the 2024 general election cycle, putting Presidents Biden and Trump, along with a swath of congressional, state, and local candidates, on the ballot amid concerns over gun control and political violence.

Firearms industry experts told Guns.com that the data is telling.

“October’s figures of nearly 1.3 million background checks for the sale of a firearm at retail are an encouraging sign that America’s desire to exercise Second Amendment rights remains strong,” Mark Oliva, public affairs officer with the NSSF, told Guns.com via email. “Historically, firearms sales during the fall hunting seasons are robust, and October’s figures hold true to that trend. Firearm manufacturers continue to produce the high-quality tools that today’s gun buyers have come to expect, and these figures bear that out.”

Math teacher says he was called ‘ideologically violent’ for supporting standardized testing

Key Takeaways

  • The author recounts his college experiences facing backlash for supporting standardized testing and watching a professor get berated for her response to the George Floyd incident.
  • His book, which critiques the ideologically driven focus of higher education, recently won a Maxy Award.
  • Yellow Heights, a former software engineer turned teacher, emphasizes the need for objective assessment in education.

While studying at one of the “top” higher education institutions in the U.S., a new author recalls how he was described as “ideologically violent” for arguing in favor of standardized testing.

This incident and other concerns about diversity, equity, and inclusion in education inspired him to write a book.

His book “Unbalanced: Memoir of an Immigrant Math Teacher,” written under the pen name “Yellow Heights,” raises concerns about the ideologically-driven focus of higher education.

“Unbalanced” was released on Amazon and recently won a Maxy Award, an honor for indie and self-published books. The book also is partially available for free on the author’s substack.

Yellow Heights describes himself as a “former climate researcher, software engineer, investment manager, and high school math teacher.” He also is a first-generation immigrant from China and father of two. He writes under a penname and requested anonymity due to concerns about political and job discrimination due to his views.

“This book recounts his Kafkaesque experiences at education school, where he was labeled a white supremacist simply for asking questions,” according to the book’s Amazon page. “He shares firsthand accounts of teaching math at a public and a private school, offering a panoramic view of the issues surrounding wokeness, coddling, and the lack of accountability in education.”

The College Fix spoke on the phone recently with Yellow Heights about his book, his experiences going back to college to become a teacher, and his views of the current American education system.

After working as a software engineer and manager at Microsoft, he said he decided to go back to college in the late 2010s to become a math teacher. Although he did not name the school, he said it was one of the top 10 education institutions in the U.S.

Yellow Heights said he wanted to teach math because “I just take a great joy in seeing other people learning math and find math interesting. I want to basically make more people see the beauty of math and also the practical side of it.”

Around 2020, his experiences at college grew increasingly concerning.

Once, he said he and a fellow classmate asked some “learning related questions” only to end up “being labeled white supremacists by the instructor and the students.”

In another case, after the George Floyd protests, he said one “very kind, very well intentioned teacher” encouraged the students to continue class after giving them about 20 minutes to mourn — “and she was attacked. She was accused of lacking empathy at all and she was made to cry.”

Another incident occurred when Yellow Heights defended standardized testing. “I didn’t say it’s perfect. I just said we probably need some objective assessment of learning outcomes and we can improve it rather than just say it’s … evil itself.”

In response, the author said he was called “ideologically violent.”

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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. – H. L. Mencken

Zohran Mamdani wins 2025 NYC mayoral election — wastes no time in declaring war on Trump in victory speech.

New Yorkers elected their first socialist mayor Tuesday, handing far-left Democrat Zohran Mamdani an historic victory — as he claimed a mandate for his potentially budget-busting progressive agenda and all but declared war on President Trump.

The Associated Press and NY1 called the race for the 34-year-old Mamdani about 40 minutes after polls closed at 9 p.m., inspiring cheers from his supporters at his campaign’s Brooklyn watch party.

“New York, tonight you have delivered a mandate for change, a mandate for a new kind of politics, a mandate for a city that we can afford and a mandate for a government that delivers exactly that,” he said, taking the stage after 11 p.m.

He then taunted Trump, prompting cheers from his fired-up crowd.

“So Donald Trump, since I know you’re watching I have four words for you: turn the volume up,” Mamdani said.

Mamdani, the Democratic nominee, carried 50.4% of votes to independent candidate Andrew Cuomo’s 42% at 12 a.m., with nearly 98% of precincts reporting, the city Board of Elections said. GOP nominee Curtis Sliwa came in third with a rock-bottom 7.1%.

The Uganda-born Mamdani will be the Big Apple’s first Muslim, first South Asian and first socialist mayor, as well as one of the youngest.

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