Anti-Gun Organizations: America’s New Welfare Queens
Breaking News: Your tax dollars went to help keep anti-gunners working against your rights.
Irony alert: The Second Amendment Foundation would like to reveal that the anti-gun-rights Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence took a federal Paycheck Protection Loan worth up to $1 million so they could continue working to keep other organizations–specifically, gun stores–closed. The fact that anti-gunners love to destroy businesses that are engaging in legal and constitutionally protected commerce is old news. However, the fact that they’ve been using taxpayer dollars to do it is as fresh and new as a coil of dog doo steaming on a chilly sidewalk.
So, just how much of your cash did the anti-gunners grab (the better to keep grabbing your guns)? The Brady group reported that they received between $350,000 and $1 million on April 10. Likewise, the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence reportedly accepted a loan worth between $150,000 and $350,000 in April, to meet payroll for 16 employees.
“SAF had to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars from contributors to file lawsuits during the coronavirus shutdowns to keep gun stores open as essential businesses so Americans could exercise their Second Amendment rights,” SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb said.
Gottlieb is also chairman of SAF’s sister organization, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, a grassroots political activism organization. That organization also had to raise funds from generous donors to continue its efforts to protect, rather than erode, the rights of American citizens.
“We didn’t take a penny of taxpayer money, nor did we even apply, because that simply would not have been appropriate,” he stated. “On the other hand,” he added, “the Brady and Gifford groups fought to keep gun stores closed while taking taxpayer funds to stop people from being able to buy firearms and ammunition to protect themselves and their property from violence including rioters, looters and arsonists.”
“More appalling is the fact that, according to their latest tax returns, the Brady and Gifford organizations have several millions of dollars in assets,” Gottlieb noted. “They did not need any taxpayer money to keep their doors open. This is yet another fraud committed by the gun prohibition lobby against the American people.”
Evidently it must be the democrats who are overseeing the issuance of this money and of course the good guys get the shaft.
Why haven’t any of their buildings been looted or torched? You guys are slippin’.
Perhaps the gun stores could try a little revolt of their own and simply stay open. A few customers standing outside with their new “purchases” might persuade the feds to stay away. Just sayin’.
It ain’t the Feds that are keeping firearm stores closed. It’s county (and in some cases, state) governments.
And if an FFL keeps his/her store open against those orders, they risk losing their FFL license, which puts them between a rock and a very hard place. Of *course* the orders are unconstitutional, therefore illegal, but by the time an FFL could fight it, all the way up through the legal chain of appeals until it got to the Supreme Court, the FFL would lose a decade of his/her life and livlihood (and that doesn’t even consider the enormous legal bills, to do so).
NY state has also kept firearm *manufacturers* like Remington closed down. Remington has been forced into bankruptcy. Remington’s assets are probably going to be bought by a bidder (and hopefully moved to another state!).
Like the dead cat that received a check the government should take the money back.