According to a post by Larry Keane, the Senior Vice President for Government and Public Affairs at the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), 14 states are working with Mexico in siding with the Latin American country to sue American firearms manufacturers. This anti-gun coalition’s goal is to bankrupt them.
One of the most clever ways the anti-gun Left has pursued a slew of its pet policies is by buying off district attorneys who do not care for the rule of law and allow criminals to run loose. 14 attorneys general filed amicus briefs backing Mexico’s legal actions against American gun manufacturers.
Currently, Mexico is looking to acquire $10 billion in damages based on allegations that the manufacturers its targeting are involved in questionable business practices and responsible for causing “massive damage” that is making Mexico unstagle. The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence has joined this case as well.
Keane listed off the states involved and what the:
The Amici States – Massachusetts, California, Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, and Oregon – have a strong interest in preserving the remedies afforded by state common law and by state statutes.
We also have a paramount interest in preserving all lawful tools — including statutory and common law remedies for unlawful conduct — to deter gun violence within our borders, the state attorneys general continued.
Anti-Second Amendment oligarch George Soros is installing district attorneys and attorneys general to do his tyrannical bidding. Most of the recipients of his funds tend to be anti-Second Amendment.
Soros is connected to attorneys general who are teaming up with Mexico in this lawsuit. In doing so, Soros is empowering attorneys general to allow a foreign actor to subvert the Second Amendment.
Keane listed off the Attorneys General involved:
Democratic Attorneys General Maura Healey (Mass.), William Tong (Conn.), Kathleen Jennings (Del.), Holly Shikada (Hawaii), Kwame Roul (Ill.), Andrew Bruck (N.J.), Hector Balderas (N.M.) and Letitia James (N.Y.) all hail from states with strict gun control laws and espouse policies that align with Soros’s Open Society Foundation’s gun control ideologies.
California’s Democratic Attorney General Rob Bonta carried the water for Soros as a California assemblyman. Then-Assemblyman Bonta introduced legislation that would require district attorneys to recuse themselves from investigating police use-of-force cases if they received money from police unions. The bill was blasted as a path to clearing out district attorneys so Soros-backed candidates sympathetic to defund-the-police and ending cash bail policies could be elected in their stead.
Washington, D.C.’s Democratic Attorney General Karl Racine was listed as a “Notable Participant” at Democracy Alliance’s spring 2018 conference. Soros is a founding member of Democracy Alliance, which is described by the watchdog group InfluenceWatch as “a collective of wealthy Democratic and left-progressive individual and institutional donors.”
Maryland’s Democratic Attorney General Brian Frosh openly spoke of collaborating with Soros’s Open Society Institute, one of Soros’s Political Action Committees. AG Frosh is also defending Maryland’s ban on Modern Sporting Rifles (MSRs) that is currently being petitioned to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Michigan’s Democratic Attorney General Dana Nessel was sued by the American Freedom Law Center challenging her policy directive to unlawfully target groups in Michigan designated by the radical, leftist Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) as “hate” groups. SPLC was the recipient of donations from the Soros Fund Charitable Foundation.
Minnesota’s Democratic Attorney General received a $100,000 donation from George Soros through the People’s Lawyer PAC, a pro-Ellison political action committee. AG Ellison thanked Soros on Twitter, noting, “Some people know what to do with the resources they’ve been blessed with. They don’t need to be president. They don’t need their butts kissed.” Carrying the water on gun control apparently doesn’t fall into the same category.
Oregon’s Democratic Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum took in $70,000 from the Soros-funded Drug Policy Action, the political affiliate of Drug Policy Alliance, a prominent drug law reform group.”
Right-wingers with a semblance of political awareness know of Soros's influence on American political affairs. As mentioned before, Soros is notorious for his efforts to undermine the US criminal justice system. He’s also a committed gun controller. Keane observed that Soros “has funded litigation against members of the industry going as far back as the 1990s.”
The hedge fund billionaire has allocated $18 billion from his personal assets towards his Open Society Foundation. The Open Society Foundation is marketed as a human rights organization. It put out a report titled “Gun Control in the United States” that advocated for the criminalization of private firearm transfers, prohibitions on specific handguns and a broad-based licensing scheme that would lead to a de facto gun registry.
The Open Society Foundation has a track record of donating to civilian disarmament groups. Soros’ anti-Second Amendment lobbyists dumped $9 million in lobbying efforts to urge Congress to repeal the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA). This law is the primary roadblock towards Mexico’s lawsuit and similar lawsuits being launched against American gun manufacturers.
The Open Society Foundation has played an integral role in shaping the Biden administration’s anti-Second Amendment policies.
The Left has realized that Congress is paralized due to the razor thin majorities Democrats hold in both chambers. As a result, Gun Control Inc. has to find new ways of implementing their civilian disarmament agenda. Bankrupting gun manufacturers through legal action is one way to deprive people and future gun owners of a large supply of firearms.
As much as any liberty-lover should hate Gun Control Inc. one must admire their dedication. This should serve as a lesson to Second Amendment supporters on why it pays to be relentless and creative when it comes to political activism.
It’s those who put in the work and get crafty that ultimately come out on top, irrespective of their ideologies.
José Niño is a freelance writer and political analyst based in Austin, Texas. Sign up for his mailing list here. Contact him via Facebook or Twitter. Get his premium newsletter on political strategy here. Subscribe to his Substack here.
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