The most astroturfed political subject in modern politics. https://t.co/4I5G9MyKdT pic.twitter.com/mSnz2OZle7
— ✳️Ⓐ Armed Joy 🔫💣 (@ArmedJ0y) May 31, 2026
What Armed Joy is pointing out in the video above is spot-on and something that doesn’t get enough attention. The average Democrat voter wants stricter gun control laws, all things being equal. But it’s almost never a top five or even a top 10 issue for them. The only exception to this is for short periods of time right after a high profile shooting.
Gun control just isn’t something Dems organize for or donate to on a broad basis. Anti-gun social media doesn’t matter. No one reads it but us. They get almost no engagement except right after a mass shooting. They exist for one audience only: elected Democrats who receive Bloomberg bucks and then do whatever Everytown demands. Even the media-backed burst of energy after Parkland and those large DC marches were aided greatly by massive outside organization, money, celebrities, etc. It was never a grassroots effort.
Compare the level of engagement the anti-gun groups get on social media to, for example, pro-abortion groups like Planned Parenthood. The Dem base cares far more about issues like that than they do about gun control. Yet gun bans are invariably one of the first things elected Dems pass when they take over a state, even when it wasn’t a top issue of their campaign.
In Virginia, for instance, many Spanberger voters in platforms like Reddit are annoyed she signed the “assault weapons” ban into law. I’m not sure what they expected, but whatever. That’s because what the anti-gun orgs lack in organic grassroots energy, they more than make up for in Michael Bloomberg’s cash. He gave hundreds of thousands to elect Spanberger and Jones and they’re repaying him.
For years anti-gunners claimed the NRA buys politicians, but that was always pure projection. That’s what they do. Gun rights orgs like SAF, NRA, GOA, etc. have thousands or even millions of dues-paying members behind them. Yet we’re often more than countered by one authoritarian billionaire who singlehandedly outspends us all.
Michael Bloomberg is worth more than the entire American gun industry’s combined economic activity, let alone whatever the nonprofit gun rights orgs have. It’s frustrating. It’d be nice if we had one of our own uber-rich guys to counter it. Unfortunately only Elon has ever stepped up for that kind of thing and gun rights are likely too far outside his area of interest. (Prove me wrong Elon! )
A 2020 New York Times article said:
According to his spokesman, Mr. Bloomberg has underwritten the gun control movement with a total of $270 million since 2007.
That number has only grown since 2020.
To compare, a 2017 Politifact article says the NRA, which again, represents millions of dues-paying members, spent $203.2 million on all political activities in the 20 years between 1998 to 2017. So Michael Bloomberg, one wealthy man, has outspent the NRA all by himself in about half the time.
The gun rights movement doesn’t have that kind of funding behind it. If only it did.
Kostas Moros is Director of Legal Research and Education for the Second Amendment Foundation.
Spot on Kostas. How many supporters does Everytown’s propaganda arm, The Trace, have? Hint – not many. Only about 2000 individuals (in a nation of 340M) financially support (give money too) The Trace. Nearly ALL of Everytown’s funding comes from Bloomberg and his cronies.
Federalist No. 58: The People’s House, the Power of the Purse, and Your Right to Bear Arms.
James Madison’s Federalist 58 explains representation, the power of the purse, majority rule, and why government must remain dependent on the people. In this episode, we break down how Madison’s argument connects to the Second Amendment, constitutional limits, and the Founders’ deeper warning against concentrated power.
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Handgun Dimensions Decoded.
“In this video, we break down the world of handgun dimensions and explain what those measurements actually mean in practical terms.
From barrel length and overall height to grip size, weight, and sight radius, every dimension affects how a handgun carries, handles, and performs. Yet many shooters focus on brand names or caliber while overlooking the specifications that can have the greatest impact on comfort, concealability, and shootability.
We discuss the key measurements to understand, how those dimensions influence real-world use, and why selecting the right size handgun is often more important than chasing the latest trends. The goal is to help you look beyond the numbers and understand what they mean when the gun is actually in your hands.”
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The lying deceptive left wing anti-gun: You’ll Never Believe How They Banned The Glock.
“Connecticut just banned the Glock. Not the Glock switch. The Glock.
They sold this as a law against illegal ‘Glock switches,’ but those are already federally prohibited. The real trick is in the language: Connecticut’s law targets semiautomatic handguns with a cruciform trigger bar that can allegedly be converted with a common tool.
That’s not describing a switch.
That’s describing the internal design of Glock and Glock-style pistols.
So instead of banning the illegal device criminals are already using, they banned the legal handgun that millions of Americans own and that police departments across the country carry every day.
California already passed a version of this. Maryland did too. Now Connecticut is joining the same playbook.
They can’t just say, ‘We’re banning one of the most popular handguns in America,’ so they redefine it, dress it up in machine-gun language, and hope nobody reads past the headline.
That’s the real danger.
Because once they can redefine a Glock out of existence, the only question is which gun they redefine next.
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[note: additional research – over the last ~5 years, 2021 to present, nationwide basis, there were 43 people murdered by a perpetrator that used a Glock with a ‘switch’. Over that same period, nationwide basis, there were 28,637 people murdered by a perpetrator who used a ‘human-poison-effect based’ method (i.e. insecticides, drugs, other chemicals, allergens, etc…)
Having spoken with a person who worked with anti-gun groups, in their inner core planning and plotting etc…, in the past, but is now a dedicated pro-gun/2A person part of our local gun community … she tells us of the lies the anti-gun orgs use, from their so called ‘studies’ to their supposed very large ‘support base’ to even the ‘most of the country supports…’ what ever the anti-gun orgs spew lies. All of it, its all a lie or based on a lie they created and is intended to deceive.
If it weren’t for generalizations, the anti-gun groups would have nothing to say at all!
Spanberger, bloomberg, Soros, wonder what these 3 have in common….
Oh please.
The only thing they have in common is they’re all over 50 and like big government.
I really like the fact that we don’t get the funding that the likes of Bloomberg can provide — all that money is sent to the NRA in small donations, by people who vote. It’s much harder to disrupt financially — and the NRA’s ultimate power comes from the voters, who may or may not be NRA members, but are passionate about gun rights!
Gun Control is THE Tool of slave masters. Always has been. Always will be.
Gun Control is older than guns. It was called the Great Sword Hunt in every ancient civilization, from Rome to China to Nippon. The Great Sword Hunt is happening in England right now.