An examination of the 49 pro-NRA amicus briefs filed in Bruen, along with court and IRS filings, shows that over the last two decades, the NRA has given financial support to at least 12 of the groups and individuals who lobbied the court on its behalf. That’s nearly a quarter. Though a full accounting is impossible, some recipients collected several million dollars from the NRA during that period and before filing briefs in Bruen. Only one of those 12 briefs disclosed the connection, meaning that neither the justices nor the public were told that 11 of these ostensibly independent voices owed their livelihoods in part to the NRA, the interest group behind the case. In his majority opinion, Justice Clarence Thomas adopted many of the arguments and conclusions offered in the amicus briefs filed by these NRA-funded allies, including Hardy’s.
The amicus briefs in Bruen provide a window into the NRA’s long standing legal strategy — how the organization has spent hundreds of millions of dollars over the past few decades constructing an advocacy network of lawyers and institutions capable of identifying, supporting and advancing cases likely to weaken gun restrictions.
But the briefs also demonstrate the limits of current Supreme Court ethics rules. The court’s guidelines surrounding financial disclosure for amicus filers are ambiguous and can be read so narrowly that experts say it’s easy for organizations to skirt them. Without a stronger rule, warn advocates pushing to bolster court ethics guidelines, groups like the NRA are essentially able to lobby the Supreme Court while keeping their role hidden.
— Will Van Sant in The NRA’s Shadowy Supreme Court Lobbying Campaign
![By Larry Keane President Joe Biden traveled to New York City for a media event to try and show America he’s doing something about rampant crime. Instead, he blamed the Second Amendment and lawful gun owners, said nothing about holding criminals to account and repeated the same tired lies about the firearm industry he keeps at the ready – lies “fact-checked” as being false each time he’s previously recited them. It makes no difference to the president. He’s not even trying anymore. To President Biden and national gun control groups the problem is always the gun and the law-abiding members of the industry. It’s never the criminal. Blaming the ‘Resistance’ President Biden was joined by U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and Democratic New York City Mayor Eric Adams for a “Gun Violence Strategies Partnership” meeting to talk about how to solve the crime surge, particularly those involving firearms. Instead of real solutions, the focus devolved into blaming law-abiding gun owners and again pushing a gun control agenda. “Enough is enough,” President Biden said. “Because we know we can do things about this, but for the resistance, we’re getting from some sectors of the government and the Congress and the state legislatures, and the organizational structures out there.” That “resistance” the president spoke of is the American people. Over the past two years they’ve become fed up with police defunding policies and soft-on-crime prosecutors, like Manhattan’s Democratic District Attorney Alvin Bragg. They’ve invested in their own safety. The “resistance” is the 21 million lawful gun buyers in 2020, including more than 8.4 million first-time buyers, and the 18.5 million gun buyers in 2021, with more than 5.4 million first-timers. The ”resistance” has backstopped Congress from passing federal gun control that don’t address crime. It also stopped President Biden’s nominations of paid gun control lobbyist David Chipman to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and banking activist Saule Omarova as Comptroller of the Currency because not even all U.S. Senate Democrats could support them. They would have turned those agencies into bludgeons to hammer the firearm industry to achieve a special interest, gun control agenda. Favorite Falsehoods The president turned his aim from lawful gun owners towards the firearm industry and repeated a lie he’s rehearsed several times before. “Imagine had we had a liabil… [sic] they’re the only industry in America that is exempted from being able to be sued by the public. Only one,” the president protested. “Why the gun manufacturers?… It’s got to end. They’ve got to be held responsible for the things they do that are irresponsible.” He repeated the claim for emphasis. “And I find that outrageous.” This is flatly false. The president knows by now, or his speechwriters do and they don’t bother with the facts. CNN, Politicfact and Washington Post have all checked President Biden on his remark, including after he said it in the White House Rose Garden. CNN cleanly rebuked it. “This is false. Gun manufacturers are not entirely exempt from being sued, nor are they only industry with some liability protections.” Politifact rated it “false.” Washington Post wasn’t kinder, saying, “Biden is wrong to claim the gun industry is totally immune.” The firearm industry has liability protections under the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA), bipartisan legislation enacted under former President George W. Bush. The firearm industry cannot be held liable when unaffiliated third-parties, in this case criminals, misuse a legal, lawfully sold product. It’s fundamental tort law and is similar to an individual attempting to hold Ford and Budweiser responsible for drunk driving deaths. The law was passed in direct response to lawsuits filed against the industry by control groups and municipalities like the city of New York and the state of New York. These type of lawsuit continue to be filed, now even by foreign governments represented by the same gun control group, the Brady Center. Colonial-Era Error President Biden continued to ignore facts on the Second Amendment and its history. He even erred when speaking about the Revolution-era days and why the right to keep and bear arms was so sacrosanct. “When the amendment was passed, it didn’t say anybody could own a gun and any kind of gun and any kind of weapon,” President Biden remarked. “You couldn’t buy a cannon, and when – the – when this, uh, this amendment was passed.” It did, and does, say the right of the People “shall not be infringed.” Even The Washington Post was brutal in their assignment of “Four Pinocchio’s” to this statement. “Biden has already been fact-checked on this claim — and it’s been deemed false. We have no idea where he conjured up this notion about a ban on cannon ownership in the early days of the Republic, but he needs to stop making this claim.” In fact, the Constitution of early America – before the Bill of Rights, and Second Amendment, was even ratified – granted and encouraged “special waivers” to American merchants and sailors, “allowing private individuals to act as pirates on behalf of the United States against countries engaged in war with it.” Americans given waivers and who owned warships obviously also obtained cannons for use in battle. In fact, it is still perfectly legal to buy a cannon today. It is the presidents’ fundamental misunderstanding and blatant lying about the Second Amendment that informs his gun control agenda and misguided approach to solving the crime problem. Millions of law-abiding Americans took ownership of their Second Amendment rights to protect themselves, understanding the president won’t. Instead of mangling the meaning of the right and pushing for more gun control on law-abiding Americans, the president should keep it simple. Take on the criminals and punish them for breaking the law.](https://cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/download-26-218x150.jpeg "Mainstream Media Lies to Cover for Kamala")
Can you hear it?
That’s the sound of the world’s tiniest violin, playing a sad, sad, song…
*snicker* 😉
How many opposing amicus briefs had connections to Soros or Bloomberg funded organizations and how many of those disclosed them?
Quick Google of Will Van Sant – writes for The Trace, founded and funded by Bloomberg.
What are the chances they submitted an amicus brief on the side of New York City?
A Bloomberg writer complaining about ethics?
Will Van Sant needs to buy a bottle of testosterone and a box of panty liners. What a whinny pansy.
Will…..WHO???? Moving along, rates zero heartbeats…..
Never mind another pompous gun hating democRat pointing fingers at the N-R-A. Perhaps the bloomberg employee could file a brief that explains in detail the hypocrisy surrounding mini mike’s 6 armed security guards?
Here ya go:
https://www.scotusblog.com/2021/11/we-read-all-the-amicus-briefs-in-new-york-state-rifle-so-you-dont-have-to/
In their minds, everything they do is fine because they are “good” and everything the NRA or anyone aligned with gun rights does is bad because they are “evil.” They don’t see this as a double standard at all – they think everyone who disagrees with them should be silenced and marginalized at a minimum. I have, unfortunately, broad experience with this kind of mindset as it is pervasive in some circles. The more savvy spokespeople won’t say it out loud because of the logical inconsistencies but, their true feelings are, “Your voice should not be heard because I hate you.”
I’m pretty sure they’ve given up entirely any allusion to being the “good” guys. From what I’ve seen they’ve embraced fully their role as villains and any of them still pretending to be “good” is done only as another villainous lie.
Nothing they do is “good” for anyone but themselves.
Reading the book 1984 right now. Seems like a how to book for whats’ happening now.
In their mind, lying to an “enemy” is not only allowed but is standard operating procedure.
i dont think its been like that forever, i cant believe america has been that nasty forever, but its now 100%
ill add something more- “Your voice should not be heard, I hate you, and I want you and everyone like you to die.”
anyone who still believes in good-faith arguments is a damn fool.
More than they would bother to mention apparently
35 briefs filed in support of the respondent. Of the three largest such groups-Brady United, Giffords and Everytown for Gun Safety only Everytown has identifiable financial connections to other entities that filed amicus briefs opposing the NRA which most likely supported a lot more than 25% of the anti-gunners.
I really want to see Bloomberg lead the way and outline how many studies and other forms of advocacy that have conflicts of interest filing Amicus Briefs and otherwise influencing the media.
The very fact that they didn’t disclose that The Trace was funded by Michael Bloomberg who’s a gun control advocate has palpable irony.
“…that over the last two decades, the NRA has given financial support to at least 12 of the groups and individuals who lobbied the court on its behalf.”
… that over the last two decades, Bloomberg has given financial support to ALL of the groups and individuals who lobbied ANY court on behalf of his and their anti-gun agenda.
It’s “Politico”. They are a wholly owned subsidiary of the Bloomberg ministry of propaganda. What did you expect? I did go to the article but, as usual, there is no provision for response or comments.
“… into the NRA’s long standing legal strategy — how the organization has spent hundreds of millions of dollars over the past few decades constructing an advocacy network of lawyers and institutions capable of identifying, supporting and advancing cases likely to weaken gun restrictions.”
… into Bloombergs long standing legal strategy — how anti-gun organizations have spent hundreds of millions of dollars over the past few decades constructing an advocacy network of lawyers and institutions capable of identifying, supporting and advancing cases likely to violate the constitution, individual rights, and impose a tyranny concept to strengthen anti-gun restrictions in courts friendly to them or using a contrived balancing test created to give an appearance of fairness while really being created to satisfy the anti-gun agenda.
“… into Bloombergs long standing legal strategy”
This, on its own, wouldn’t be such an insurmountable issue. However, along with the “Bloomberg” and Soros money, these antigun zealots can add even more massive amounts of taxpayer money being used by the blue state/city leaders, as well as millions more in free antigun advocacy by the ever-complicit woke MSM.
The first step should be the taxpayers firing their elected jerks up for reelection in the November election cycle. Then begin work on the MSM advertisers, as well as a return to reigning in the various forms of communist radio/TV ‘supported” not so much by “viewers like you”, but by state and federal tax dollars.
I’m trying to imagine what pearl clutching sounds like in real life and right now I have a good idea of I imagine it sounds like.
The wails of anguish and the lamentations of their womenfolk will come in due course.
And will be so sweet to hear… 🙂
Geoff……………
I think we have a new slogan!!
What becomes so striking to me is that it is actually the left that behaves this way. THIS is how THEY see the world as they chant “death to all that oppose us”. I thought this video was rather poetic. It is the Democrat left stuck in ancient thinking that becomes neither progressive or advancing of the human condition. In spite of how they commandeer such terms. They say “follow the science” when they are so completely disinterested in science that knowledge is suppressed and forgotten as they would have us all regress back into the dark-ages.
That’s because they follow the “SCIENCE!,” not actual science.
Yeah, but how can we tell the lamentation of their women from the keening of their “men.”
They don’t like no womens. Lil boys, they are all in.
https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2022/08/07/sheriff-georgia-couple-arrested-for-allegedly-using-their-adopted-children-to-produce-child-pornography/
Good one,, but I wonder, Is it the sound of Pearl Clutching, or Sphincter Collapse as the Author schit himself trying to hide the fact that Antigunners do the exact same thing?
trying to hide the fact that Antigunners do the exact same thing?
If you don’t believe something exists it can’t bother you. It probably never occurred to this one-dimensional idiot that anyone from the other side of the argument would even engage in such activity and if they did it’s okay because THEY are on the right side.
Window into mind of anti-gun loons, they think gun owners are all knuckle-draging morons incapable of putting 13 words together to form a sentence. They believe that only smart people like them should be “allowed” to even appear in the court but it’s perfectly fine if Little Mikey Bloomberg funds the campaigns and organization the run the PAC to elect corrupt District Attorneys. FMB FJB
People out there actually think that the NRA ‘makes law’. I’ve personally talked with a few of them. These people believe that there is no equivalency between the right to free speech and the right to own guns. To them, the second amendment is such in name only and is not actually part of the Constitution. It’s just what people call it and it more often not even refered to that way.
Part of the misunderstanding here is that since the way the NRA works is in itself misunderstood (largely due to the way the NRA works), people don’t realize that there are elected ‘law makers’ that just simply ARE also members of the NRA (usually on the Republican side). This is either ignored or is completely overlooked.
It is NOT that the Republicans placate to the NRA and do their bidding as many on the left would have the world believe. THAT is a complete distortion of reality (like all the other lies of the left). It’s that the Second Amendment actually IS part of the American Constitution and the whole point of efforts made by the NRA to to protect it (by lobbying mainly through the Republican party). There are plenty of groups on the left that do the EXACT SAME THING but on the opposing side.
The NRA does NOT make law. They NEVER have. But there are people in government that actually DO make law that are also NRA members. Just like there ARE those in government that make law that are anti-semite Jew hating Communist Nazi’s hell bent on destroying everything that is the USA.
Prndll – I think about all that you missed was how many of them ‘think’ that the NRA sells guns 🙁
‘cuz the lame stream media and the rest of the antis tell them they do.
Well the diminutive Bloomie mused about buying his way into heaven. Not how it works Schlomo!
In the meanwhile, Harriet Hagman tears apart the leftist, wholeness oppressors. This brief clip will have you standing on the sofa, cheering.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/fed-harriet-hageman-stars-best-campaign-video-wyoming-history-bye-liz-cheney/
Huh. And all I hear is how the NRA spends all of its money on LaPierre’s girlfriend and how it doesn’t really participate in fighting anti-gun legislation but takes credit for the work of other organizations.
Nikki Fried (describes her brain state), (D) running for governor, has a TV ad here saying that she hasn’t taken any donations from the NRA and is billing herself as the “anti-NRA” candidate. She says that DeSantis opposes background checks.
Does he oppose ‘background checks’? or does he oppose Universal Background Checks?
Not only is a Background Check a simply go/no-go through NICS (which is part of the process and does not require his involvement), it also does NOT actually check ones background at all (never has). The problem with UBC’s is that there is absolutely NO way to enforce it while at the same time creating illegal registries. So I’m not sure why DeSantis would support and UBC.
As for Nikki Fried, running as a Democrat, of course she will publicly state her opposition to the NRA (or anything else related to the 2A). She is running as a Democrat. As for her not taking NRA donations…well, Trump didn’t take any paychecks as president so I’m asking her ‘what’s your point?’.
“Does he oppose ‘background checks’? or does he oppose Universal Background Checks?”
Good question, prndll. I just assume that she, being a (D), is lying and I forego the background research. I’m usually correct.
Good policy, likewise here.
They’re just (D)ifferent.™
Just ran across this on Don Surber’s page:
Nikki Fried, who’s running for governor against Ron DeSantis, held a virtual press event with a couple of health experts. At the end, she asked to field questions from members of the media. None of them showed up. pic.twitter.com/T9rmENo3R1
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) August 4, 2022
“And all I hear is how the NRA spends all of its money on LaPierre’s girlfriend and how it doesn’t really participate in fighting anti-gun legislation but takes credit for the work of other organizations.”
That’s because you, and a lot of purist 2A keyboard warriors are generally listening to the wrong voices. Without listing them here, I can come up with 15 cases from national to state level that NRA is involved in right now, not counting the NY AG v NRA. I’m not talking about suits filed, these are active lawsuits, in progress. Go find an ILA report. That’s where the real money and time are spent.
The antiNRA trolls are CNN/MSM shills. CNN/MSM/demtards will say/do ANYTHING to reduce the NRA.
Every day, I wonder how a person can believe he or she has a right to free speech while others do not. How people of one persuasion have a right to due process, but others do not. How it is OK to use armed force against those with whom they disagree, but their opponents have no right of self defense. How the state should use its power to create poverty, shortages of necessities, and ruin small businesses to pursue an ideology.
I connot comprehend how people can choose such evil and believe they are clothed in righteousness. It seems a sickness, a morbidity. It seems demonic.
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, etc. etc.etc.
They’re almost religious in their fervor. Perhaps it’s a substitute for their lack of “religion.”
BTW, is Satanism a “religion?” If yes, then we may have found the answer.
L3ftism is more like an apocalypse cult.
They don’t lift people up. They drag everybody down. They want to massacre everyone who is not them, and then more massacres for the scapegoats of the failures of the system. Their whole belief is built on lies and self-delusion.
“It seems a sickness, a morbidity. It seems demonic.”
It is all those things. It is rabid, insane, self-destructive, self-deception of the highest order.
I suspect you know these, so to the general readership, read the story of Elijah confronting the prophets of Baal found in 1 Kings 18:1-40. Then read some Solzhenitsyn. Evil has no reason and no bottom.
ah, yes- fire. the biblical cleanser.
“a hot stake is better than a cold chop.”
and then the rains came.
I quit supporting the NRA a while ago. Yes they’re the biggest name in the game, but they’re also not nearly as aggressive as I’d like for their size. I’d much rather support smaller groups, especially local ones
Filing lawsuits that will not go anywhere in the court system is hardly being aggressive.
Las Vegas Smoke Shop Owner Repeatedly Stabs Masked Thief (VIDEO)
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/las-vegas-smoke-shop-owner-repeatedly-stabs-masked-thief-video/
He plans to get a gun, for next time.
Should’ve had one this time.
I love my blades, and I’m well trained and damned good with them, esp. 八斬刀 & Barong’s. But, Gun > blade every time unless inside Tueller distances, and not already drawn down on.
Last returns true inside blade arc distance only.
Folks have said all along, first they take away the 2nd Amendment, next it’ll be the 1st.
Could anything be more clear after reading this article?
From aggregated police and news wire reports…
Yesterday, 6 August 2022, there were 4,637 violent criminal home invasions nation wide while residents were home.
52% of the residents were armed with firearms and used them to repell the criminals either by brandishing (most) or by firing. 2% of those 52% armed residents suffered serious injury or were killed.
48% were not armed with firearms and complied with the criminal demands, 76% of this 48% suffered serious injury or were killed.
Where do you find that information? I’d like to have it handy, for discussions on other forums.
My wife is a free lance journalist and has a journslist friend in MSM that gives her access to their aggregate feed where all this stuff daily flows. She sets up searches for me in that.
Bloomberg and Soros need to stand trial just like Alex Jones. Together, they have many billions that can be distributed to victims, not mere millions. I’m not even much of a victim – the real victims are located in progressive/liberal states where officials use the Bill of Rights to wipe their bums.
This is a two-part analysis:
1. In the first instance, I have NO PROBLEM with disclosure and transparency. Requiring parties, attorneys, amici, and even justices, to disclose their financial interests that might give rise to bias, seems ENTIRELY fair. So long as it is universally applied.
2. The author of this piece of dreck works for a Bloomberg-funded website.
Who is the pot, and who is the kettle????
Oooooo, scary.
A list of ALL proceedings and filings.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/docketfiles/html/public/20-843.html
The leftists of the anti-gun legacy media will attack anyone and everyone who frustrates their aim and will finger point at the framers of the Constitution, SCOTUS, all of the gun rights organizations, and all of us who have donated to support ongoing attempts to block and roll back their disarmament goals.
.esaelp, ydaerla eid tsuJ
Easy for you to say.
Or should it be “.yas ot uoy rof ysaE”
;>)
If Bloomberg’s army didn’t lie so much, being horrified would be unnecessary. For example, Democrats believe 57 percent of violent crimes involve firearms while Republicans believe 37 percent involve firearms. Combined, voters believe 46 percent of America’s violent crimes involve firearms, six times the real number which is less than eight percent.
His army splashes the headlines with the horrible carnage caused by the so-called assault rifle. Fact is rifles of “all types” are used in fewer murders than are hands and feet. Further, murders and assaults involving firearms declined by more than half between 1990 and 2020 while guns in circulation doubled and many states relaxed their laws.
Regarding mass shootings at schools, since 1999, seven people per year have been killed. Thus, the chances that a student or teacher are killed is one in 1.3 million. Odd that they never mention that number is about half the number killed each year inside school transportation vehicles.
I could go on, but this information was paraphrased from “America’s 1st Freedom” article by Charles C.W. Cooke and published by the NRA. Information cited as authorities include McLaughlin and Associates, Department of Justice, National Instant Criminal Background Check System and of course Dr. John Lott himself.
The left hopes for another Miller style victory, no defense offered in the court.
Nobody even filed a brief in Miller and it was not the walkover the feds wanted.
The differences this time the left wants no defense permitted.
Just imagine what the NRA (Negotiating Rights Away) could have done if they didn’t have to fund LaPierre’s exorbitant lifestyle – and actually fought for gun rights instead of making concessions.
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