{"id":117556,"date":"2026-06-27T23:50:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T04:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=117556"},"modified":"2026-06-27T23:50:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T04:50:54","slug":"117556","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=117556","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shootingnewsweekly.com\/gun-control\/we-wont-let-anti-gun-billionaires-who-finance-civilian-disarmament-live-in-the-shadows-anymore\/\">We Won\u2019t Let Anti-Gun Billionaires Who Finance Civilian Disarmament Live in the Shadows Anymore.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For far too long, anti-gun groups have been nothing more than snake oil salesmen. They claim to speak for a vast army of grassroots citizens, but the reality is these groups are astroturf. They aren\u2019t rooted in anything more than anti-gun animus. They\u2019re also not nearly as down-to-earth with the people they claim to represent.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re a high-price, but cheap knockoff of the real thing. It\u2019s fugazi grassroots.<\/p>\n<p>NSSF has called them out in the past for their bought-and-paid-for activism and it\u2019s time to do it again. Pull back the curtain and it\u2019s easy to see that the antigun movement isn\u2019t much more than a few billionaires and activist foundations pouring cash into their pet gun control projects\u2026to the tune of over $400 million every year.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-40032 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/files.shootingnewsweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/25132653\/gun-control-orgs-copy.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/files.shootingnewsweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/25132653\/gun-control-orgs-copy.jpg 900w, https:\/\/files.shootingnewsweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/25132653\/gun-control-orgs-copy-300x129.jpg 300w, https:\/\/files.shootingnewsweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/25132653\/gun-control-orgs-copy-768x329.jpg 768w\" alt=\"gun control orgs organizations\" width=\"900\" height=\"386\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also a willing media that goes right along with them, parroting half-truths and twisting narratives to demonize American gun owners and the firearm industry that serves them.<\/p>\n<p>No more.\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gunrightsinsights.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Welcome Gun Rights Insights<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Gun Rights Insights is a new outreach initiative,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?is=Xea_Du-iJSmyU679&amp;v=IYLc_BdR_XM&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">including periodic videos<\/a><\/strong>, to pull back the veil that these anti-gun billionaires creep around telling America to give up their Second Amendment rights while they enjoy paid armed security. The \u201crules-for-thee, not-for-me\u201d era must come to an end. That\u2019s why NSSF\u2019s Gun Rights Insights will be taking note of the gun control hypocrisy.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Who's Funding the Attack on Your Gun Rights?\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IYLc_BdR_XM?feature=oembed\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h5>Anti-Gun Billionaire Michael Bloomberg<\/h5>\n<p>Take for instance, anti-gun billionaire Michael Bloomberg. The former New York City Mayor has made it his life\u2019s goal to eliminate Second Amendment rights across the nation, spending over $50 million to attack lawful firearm ownership. While mayor, he organized Mayors Against Illegal Guns. That group was discredited when they\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/blogs\/politics\/2013\/06\/bloomberg-gun-group-apologizes-for-honoring-marathon-bombing-suspect\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201chonored\u201d the terrorist and Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0as a \u201cgun violence victim\u201d in 2013. Add to that, several MAIG members have, ironically, been\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/news\/local\/gun-mayor-charged-sex-marcus-hook-schiliro\/2085633\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">charged with firearms-related offenses<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg, of course, is the financier of Everytown for Gun Safety, Moms Demand Action and funds their anti-gun media mouthpiece The Trace.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_21349\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21349\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21349\" src=\"https:\/\/files.shootingnewsweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/06125059\/Michael-Bloomberg-Angry.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/files.shootingnewsweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/06125059\/Michael-Bloomberg-Angry.jpg 770w, https:\/\/files.shootingnewsweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/06125059\/Michael-Bloomberg-Angry-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/files.shootingnewsweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/06125059\/Michael-Bloomberg-Angry-768x512.jpg 768w\" alt=\"Michael Bloomberg Angry\" width=\"770\" height=\"513\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21349\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Michael Bloomberg (AP Photo\/Henny Ray Abrams)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Trace was seeded with\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nssf.org\/articles\/everytowns-propaganda-arm-puts-gun-control-over-saving-lives\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">funding tied to the gun control movement<\/a><\/strong>. The Trace claims to be \u201ceditorially independent,\u201d but when a newsroom is funded by and built around a single political issue with the backing of major gun control activists, it\u2019s fair \u2014 necessary, even \u2014 to scrutinize how it frames the facts.<\/p>\n<p>After all, The Trace is\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nssf.org\/articles\/bloombergs-propaganda-arm-the-trace-naming-shaming\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">headed by John Feinblatt<\/a><\/strong>, who also heads Everytown for Gun Safety and once served as a senior advisor to Bloomberg when he was mayor. Feinblatt is the principal officer listed on tax filings for The Trace. Everytown, of course, is a gun control organization that wants to see lawful firearm ownership eliminated in America.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19500\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19500\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-19500\" src=\"https:\/\/files.shootingnewsweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/21165649\/john-feinblatt-president-everytown-680x1024.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 367px) 100vw, 367px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/files.shootingnewsweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/21165649\/john-feinblatt-president-everytown-680x1024.jpg 680w, https:\/\/files.shootingnewsweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/21165649\/john-feinblatt-president-everytown-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/files.shootingnewsweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/21165649\/john-feinblatt-president-everytown-768x1156.jpg 768w, https:\/\/files.shootingnewsweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/21165649\/john-feinblatt-president-everytown.jpg 800w\" alt=\"john feinblatt president of everytown for gun safety\" width=\"367\" height=\"553\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19500\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>John Feinblatt (Image: NBC News)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>To top it all off, The Trace admits that it has \u201c<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetrace.org\/event\/investigating-the-gun-industry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more than a thousand readers who have stepped up to support financially<\/a><\/strong>.\u201d The Trace reported they received over $6.3 million in 2024, according to the watchdog group\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.influencewatch.org\/non-profit\/the-trace\/\">InfluenceWatch<\/a><\/strong>. That means to make its budget work, each of those readers would have had to donated over $6,300.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not likely. The Trace\u2019s\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetrace.org\/donor-financial-transparency\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">own website states<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0they make public all donors who give over $1,000 or more per year. The Trace lists over 60 donors and donating foundations that reads like a veritable \u201cwho\u2019s who\u201d of gun control supporters.<\/p>\n<h5>The Soros Family and Foreign Money<\/h5>\n<p>George Soros, and now his son Alex, are another source of deep pockets for anti-gun efforts. George Soros\u2019s entities spent $9 million for lobbying efforts to attack Second Amendment rights, including fighting to allow frivolous lawsuits to clog the courts and attempt to bankrupt the firearm industry through their \u201clegislation-through-litigation\u201d strategy.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_40030\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40030\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-40030\" src=\"https:\/\/files.shootingnewsweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/25131610\/George_Soros_-_World_Economic_Forum_Annual_Meeting_2011-1024x687.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/files.shootingnewsweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/25131610\/George_Soros_-_World_Economic_Forum_Annual_Meeting_2011-1024x687.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/files.shootingnewsweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/25131610\/George_Soros_-_World_Economic_Forum_Annual_Meeting_2011-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/files.shootingnewsweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/25131610\/George_Soros_-_World_Economic_Forum_Annual_Meeting_2011-768x515.jpg 768w, https:\/\/files.shootingnewsweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/25131610\/George_Soros_-_World_Economic_Forum_Annual_Meeting_2011-1536x1031.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/files.shootingnewsweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/25131610\/George_Soros_-_World_Economic_Forum_Annual_Meeting_2011-2048x1374.jpg 2048w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"687\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40030\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>By World Economic Forum \u2013 Flickr: George Soros\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=19552399\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.0<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Soros even worked with the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nssf.org\/articles\/antigun-billionaire-funding-foreign-assaults-on-american-constitutional-rights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gun Action on Gun Violence<\/a><\/strong>, which assisted in the ill-fated and frivilous $10 billion lawsuit by Mexico against U.S. firearm manufacturers.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_32068\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32068\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-32068\" src=\"https:\/\/files.shootingnewsweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/16104555\/Alexander-Soros-1024x665.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/files.shootingnewsweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/16104555\/Alexander-Soros-1024x665.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/files.shootingnewsweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/16104555\/Alexander-Soros-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/files.shootingnewsweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/16104555\/Alexander-Soros-768x499.jpg 768w, https:\/\/files.shootingnewsweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/16104555\/Alexander-Soros.jpg 1387w\" alt=\"Alexander Soros\" width=\"1024\" height=\"665\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32068\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Alexander Soros (Image: Open Society Foundations)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>That doesn\u2019t even take into account the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shootingnewsweekly.com\/gun-nation\/is-it-possible-that-hollywood-is-out-of-touch-with-the-real-world\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hollywood celebrities<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0who regularly harangue gun owners and the firearm industry. They do this while making movies and television shows featuring firearms, many times being used in irresponsible and illegal ways. And they do it while enjoying the safety of armed bodyguards.<\/p>\n<p>The time is past due to expose this astroturf effort for what it is. It\u2019s a paper-thin campaign to ostracize lawful firearm ownership, funded by wealthy elites who can afford their own armed security, but want to deny Second Amendment rights to law-abiding Americans. Poking holes into that false narrative is what Gun Rights Insights aims to do. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We Won\u2019t Let Anti-Gun Billionaires Who Finance Civilian Disarmament Live in the Shadows Anymore. For far too long, anti-gun groups have been nothing more than snake oil salesmen. They claim to speak for a vast army of grassroots citizens, but the reality is these groups are astroturf. 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