{"id":112932,"date":"2025-10-28T16:40:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T21:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=112932"},"modified":"2025-10-28T16:40:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T21:40:15","slug":"112932","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=112932","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Gov\u2019t. Grant Money for \u2018Gun Violence Prevention\u2019 Withheld from Non-Profits<\/a><\/p>\n

By Dave Workman<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Guardian is reporting<\/a> that the Trump administration is this year cutting off government grants for so-called \u201cgun violence prevention\u201d programs to certain non-profit groups which the grants were reportedly built around.<\/p>\n

While the news agency didn\u2019t specifically say so, there have been concerns within the Second Amendment community that public funds were being utilized by some groups to push a gun control agenda. Essentially,\u00a0gun owners\u2014as taxpayers\u2014were helping to fund efforts which ultimately were aimed at eroding their Second Amendment rights. At least, that\u2019s the concern.<\/p>\n

According to The Guardian, \u201cThe Community Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative (CVIPI), was created in 2022, to support groups working in rural and urban communities struggling to address\u00a0violence and fund research studying the programs\u2019 efficacy.\u201d<\/p>\n

But following Donald Trunmp\u2019s return to the White House, these \u201ccommunity-based organizations\u201d were allowed to apply for grant funds. Now, those monies are limited to city, county and tribal governments, and\u00a0the new goal of the program is to \u201csupport law enforcement efforts to reduce violent crime and improve police-community relations.\u201d<\/p>\n

As noted by The Guardian, when Trump returned to office in January, he immediately dismantled Joe Biden\u2019s White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, which was a thinly-veiled \u201cin-house\u201d gun control effort.\u00a0Instead, Trump nominated Pam Bondi to the office of Attorney General, and she has subsequently led the Justice Department in a full 180-degree shift from gun control to Second Amendment protection. The DOJ, with Harmeet Dhillon as U.S. assistant attorney general\u00a0for the Civil Rights essentially leading the charge, has gone after the Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Department for dragging its feet in the issuance of carry permits, holding up the process for up to two years.<\/p>\n

Dhillon has also\u00a0argued against<\/a>\u00a0the semi-auto ban in Illinois before the 7th<\/sup>\u00a0U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, the Guardian noted that the Justice Department cut more than $800 million in grants that would have gone to \u201corganizations that prevent and respond to gun violence, sexual assault and hate\u00a0crimes\u201d and other groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gov\u2019t. Grant Money for \u2018Gun Violence Prevention\u2019 Withheld from Non-Profits By Dave Workman The\u00a0Guardian is reporting that the Trump administration is this year cutting off government grants for so-called \u201cgun violence prevention\u201d programs to certain non-profit groups which the grants were reportedly built around. While the news agency didn\u2019t specifically say so, there have been … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,79,86,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-and-hard","category-government","category-just-desserts","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112933,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112932\/revisions\/112933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}