After Trump Cuts BSCA Funds to Anti-Gun Orgs, Bloomberg’s Everytown Steps in to Fill the Void

Washington’s swamp never runs out of ways to waste your money. But this time, for once, a major artery of anti-gun spending has been cut off — and gun owners have reason to breathe a little easier.

The Trump Administration has officially ended millions in federal grants created under John Cornyn’s Bipartisan Safer Communities Act — a law that gun owners across the country warned from day one would become a backdoor gun-control slush fund.

The cuts hit the so-called Community Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative, a DOJ program Cornyn helped create with Biden in 2022. CVIPI’s stated mission sounds harmless enough — “supporting community-based solutions to reduce gun violence.” But in practice, it became a pipeline of taxpayer cash flowing straight into organizations that push red flag gun confiscation, “ghost gun” bans, and gun tracing programs that amount to backdoor registration.

The CVIPI Problem

When Cornyn and his Democrat allies rammed through the BSCA, they sold it to gun owners as “fundamentally important to the country.” In reality, it pumped hundreds of millions of dollars into Washington bureaucracies and “community-based organizations” with political ties to the gun control lobby, much like a domestic USAID-style money laundering scheme.

These were the same groups working hand-in-hand with anti-gun legislators in blue states to advance red flag laws, promote so-called “untraceable gun” bans, and build databases of firearm ownership under the guise of “tracing.” In other words, the federal government was bankrolling the civilian disarmament industrial complex.

That’s why Texas Gun Rights fought Cornyn’s BSCA from day one. We warned that once the money started flowing, it would end up in the pockets of the same radical organizations that hate the Second Amendment. And we were right.

Cui Bono?

Recipients of Cornyn’s CVIPI funds included groups openly advocating for gun-control frameworks. Organizations like Youth ALIVE! and others in California publicly promote red flag laws and tracing mandates. Others, like Cure Violence Global and Chicago CRED, work hand-in-hand with state officials to support “public health” approaches to gun ownership that treat the Second Amendment as a disease.

Now, the Trump Administration has finally put an end to this taxpayer-funded nonsense, slashing off millions that were funneled into these anti-gun operations.

Enter Everytown, Bloomberg’s Cash Machine

Of course, billionaire Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety couldn’t stand to see their allies lose funding. Within weeks of the cuts, Everytown announced they were funneling over $2 million into “community organizations” that lost their CVIPI money.

Let that sink in. The same organization that’s spent years lobbying for gun bans, “red flag” confiscation laws, and national gun registration is now handpicking and financing the exact same groups that had been feasting on your tax dollars.

So when the DOJ says CVIPI is about “violence prevention,” it’s worth asking: if Bloomberg’s Everytown is funding the same recipients, what kind of “prevention” are we really talking about?

Why It Matters

Gun owners know what “red flag” laws mean — confiscation without due process. We know what “ghost gun” bans mean — criminalizing home-built firearms and hobbyists. And we know what “gun tracing” means — a federal backdoor registry waiting to happen.

All of it is unconstitutional. All of it is dangerous. And all of it was made possible by John Cornyn’s partnership with Joe Biden on the BSCA. The same BSCA that gave the ATF its “engaged in the business” rule — a sweeping new power that treats ordinary Americans as gun dealers, forcing them into a de facto universal gun registration scheme.

Fighting Back

Thankfully, there are fighters ready to undo Cornyn’s damage. Congressman Wesley Hunt has announced plans to file legislation repealing every shred of gun control from the BSCA. And Attorney General Ken Paxton is in the trenches suing the ATF to shut down its unconstitutional “engaged in the business” rule.

That rule never passed Congress. It was enabled by the BSCA, and it’s being wielded to destroy the private sale of firearms in America. Meanwhile, Cornyn is dodging the cameras and pretending none of this ever happened, as if Texans have forgotten that he gave Biden his biggest gun control win in 30 years.

We haven’t.

The No-Compromise Truth

This is why Texas Gun Rights exists — not to please politicians, but to hold them accountable when they betray gun owners. We don’t compromise with gun control. We expose it, dismantle it, and fight it tooth and nail. Whether it comes from Biden, Bloomberg, or a “Republican” senator from Texas — the result is the same: our freedoms are under attack.

And we’ll never stop fighting to defend them. Because at the end of the day, you shouldn’t have to sacrifice your safety or your rights to satisfy the swamp. Not in Texas. Not anywhere.

 

Chris McNutt is president of Texas Gun Rights.