NSSF launched a new campaign this year called Gun Rights Insights. The goal is to drag the big money donors that fuel the gun control campaign into the sunlight. No more hiding behind veils and in corporate boardroom ivory towers.
Gun Rights Insights pulls back the curtain to show that the gun control agenda is nothing more than an astroturf agenda living off the funding and the backing of a few billionaires and progressive activist foundations flooding the field with waves of cash, up to $400 million annually.
With this money, they buy influence, media airtime and followers who buy into the false narrative that surrendering God-given rights will make America safer while they surround themselves with armed security in gated compounds.
Gun Rights Insights previously exposed antigun billionaire Michael Bloomberg, George Soros and Hollywood A-list celebrities.
Allow Gun Rights Insights to introduce…The Joyce Foundation.
Who They Are
The Joyce Foundation, based in Chicago, was founded by Beatrice Joyce Kean in 1948, the heiress of an Iowa lumber executive. They now pitch the foundation as a “private, nonpartisan philanthropy that invests in public policies and strategies to advance racial equity and economic mobility for the next generation in the Great Lakes region.”
Founder Kean passed away in 1972, leaving 90 percent of her estate — or $120 million — to the foundation, according to InfluenceWatch, a watchdog group run by the Capital Research Center. Soon after, The Joyce Foundation shifted focus to include government policies. Notably, they target gun control with a board comprised of anti-gun activists.
Chief of among those steering The Joyce Foundation’s work was President Barack Obama, who was on the foundation’s board of directors from 1994–2002, before he entered public life. President Obama espoused strict gun control, calling for a ban on modern sporting rifles, America’s most-popular selling centerfire rifle. He also demanded a national firearm registry through a universal background check scheme.
Valerie Jarrett was a former senior advisor to President Obama and is currently the CEO of the Obama Foundation. She’s a former board member of The Joyce Foundation.
Today, other members of his White House still serve on The Joyce Foundation’s board. Margot Rogers, was the Chief of Staff to the Obama administration’s U.S. Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan. Today, Rogers is The Joyce Foundation’s Chair of the Board. The Vice Chair of the Board is filled by Tracey Maeres, who was on President Obama’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing. Cecilia Munoz served eight years in the Obama administration, including five years leading the White House Domestic Policy Council. Today, Munoz is a board member for the Joyce Foundation.
What They Do
The Joyce Foundation’s role in propelling gun control is through funding research that is used to prop up gun control policies.
“Not only has it bankrolled research, but Joyce brags that it has been instrumental in launching major gun control groups,” The Gun Rights Insights video explains. “Some of the groups include the Violence Policy Center, a group that has faced criticism for misrepresenting facts and inflating numbers to further its position on gun crime. The Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence, since merged into the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, which call for restrictions on your right to carry as well as government permits to purchase firearms.”
This is the same group, led by Josh Horwitz, that is the driving force to demand all firearms be equipped with unworkable microstamping technology, which is a really a slow-motion gun ban. But the Commerce Department’s National Institutes for Standards and Technology just told Congress there’s no evidence that the tech requirement would actually work.
The video continues, “The group also criticizes locking up violent criminals who abuse guns saying, ‘Policing and incarceration have been the primary means to address gun violence in underserved communities and often these systems have been ineffective and perpetuated or exacerbated racial inequities.’”
That’s not all. The Joyce Foundation has also funded The New Venture Fund, a dark-money organization that has spawned dozens of left-wing advocacy campaigns. That group has been sued by Nebraska’s Attorney General Mike Hilgers for allegedly funneling foreign money into political campaigns.
How They Do It
The Joyce Foundation’s investment in gun control isn’t small. They’ve dropped nearly $100 million into the effort. That’s a drop in the bucket compared to their $1.3 billion in assets at its disposal. In 2024, The Joyce Foundation grew by $85.7 million. While that sum is staggering to most who don’t live in Chicago’s Gold Coast and Lincoln Park, it is still overshadowed by 2021, when The Joyce Foundation reported $150.4 million in revenue and another $114.8 million in 2022.
But that Chicago isn’t the same Windy City everyone else knows.
“The Joyce Foundation’s home city of Chicago is a posterchild of how gun control fails,” the Gun Rights Insights video explains.
That’s because Chicago, and Illinois, have some of the most restrictive gun control laws in the nation. That hasn’t brought crime to a screeching halt. That’s only robbed law-abiding citizens of their ability to defend themselves against violent criminals.
And The Joyce Foundation is bankrolling it.
Larry Keane is SVP for Government and Public Affairs, Assistant Secretary and General Counsel of the National Shooting Sports Foundation.
LoL
Of course. Perfectly clear.
Chit-cago… where the t-urds just refuse to flush.
Well, its more difficult to flush when the toilet is backed up with left wing t-urds.
HUGE 2A WIN: You CAN’T Be Forced to Wait for Your Gun Rights.
“A federal appeals court has delivered a major Second Amendment victory, ruling against New Mexico’s mandatory seven-day firearm waiting period. The Tenth Circuit says the government cannot simply force law-abiding Americans to wait to exercise a constitutional right because it fears they might misuse it. We break down Ortega v. Grisham, the court’s powerful constitutional reasoning, the dissent, and what this could mean for gun waiting periods nationwide.”
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Left wing violence & terrorism: US Sanctions Foreign Tech Group For Providing Infrastructure For Left-Wing Domestic Terror.
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The democrats miss the Biden tyranny era and take a page from the Biden tyranny game plan the Biden tyranny wanted to use to confiscate guns: Josh Shapiro moves to give PA health officials sweeping powers for warrantless searches under ‘disease control measures’
“Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro’s administration is pushing for a proposed change to the state’s health regulations that would significantly expand the authority of the Pennsylvania Department of Health, including allowing health officials to enter homes and schools without a warrant.
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[note: During the Biden tyranny Biden sent his DOJ into the SCOTUS case Caniglia v. Strom to argue in favor of the warrentless entry to the home of Caniglia in which his guns were confiscated. The police had done this claiming they were allowed to do it under the “community caretaking” exception to the Fourth Amendment’s warrant requirement because they were called to the home for a welfare check after Caniglia’s wife claimed he had basically threatened suicide with a firearm when in reality he was being sarcastic during an argument they had. Had this been any other case with no guns involved the Biden tyranny would have done nothing, the Biden DOJ specifically keyed in on the guns as their reason for intervening in the case. At the same time the Biden tyranny was having the DOH declare guns as basically a national health ‘epidemic’. SCOTUS saw through this misuse of the “community caretaking” exception and ruled that, basically, there is no open-ended “community caretaking” exception to the Fourth Amendment’s warrant requirement, meaning police cannot search a home without a warrant, even in welfare check situations. The Court emphasized that searches of homes are subject to the highest level of constitutional protection. The police and the DOJ lost in their efforts to have the “community caretaking” exception to the Fourth Amendment ‘broadened’ to include the confiscation of guns based upon a “community caretaking” justification. If SCOTUS had not ruled the way it did, the Biden tyranny would have been able to enter homes without warrant to confiscate guns by using the excuse of “community caretaking” because the Biden tyranny DOH had declared guns as basically a national health ‘epidemic’ threat to be treated like a disease, and laws and regulation governing health could have been used to enforce it.]
It’s always good to know, name, and expose who the enemy are. And remind everyone at every opportunity. These people, none of them, are concerned about safety or protection of the public. They are all tyrant wannabes, no matter the damage done, the rights and freedoms squashed, or the “unfortunate” consequences visited upon Americans. Never forget, never forgive, ever.
The Mullahs launched 13 missiles – 3 fell into the Jordan desert “Sea” and 10 shot down. IDF\Shabak captures ASS of “FBI” of Ham-ASS in Gaza City. Post Oct 7th 2023 a New ERA a ר”ה blessing: Establish the Tribe of Reuven whose Yichus inclusive all of Gaza; expel the Arabs to Syria-Palestine.
More Japanese pilots killed attacking the US on Dec7th 1941 than US soldiers fighting to prevent the Mullah becoming another rogue North Korea! War has its consequences. Post WWII Prussia the heart and Soul of the Second Germanic Empire under the Kaiser — some 13 to 18 million Germans expelled and the land divided between Poland and Russia. Post the Oct7th Abomination War Israeli self-determination ideally shall establish the Yichus of the 12 Tribes of the Republic. Gaza renamed Reuven! The Gazans deported to Syria-Palestine: the Roman name! LOL Since when do Arabs qualify as extinct Romans from Italy? Post Oct 7th Israel having given the dhimmi rag headed dune coons autonomy in both Gaza and Area A in Samaria in 2005 has absolutely no intention to behave like a dog and eat its own vomit! All Gaza refugee Arab populations must leave Gaza and move to Syria – Palestine.
Ham-ASS Nazism totally defeated in Gaza. The self determination of the Jewish state to establish the Yichus borders of the Tribe of Reuven and all of the other Tribes – to restore the classic Republic of Israel. The failure of Arab countries to repatriate their refugee populations an utter disgrace. Israel, obviously prepared to assist the resettlement of Arab refugees to Syria Palestine like as did the post War US helped rebuild Europe! The precedent of a mass population transfer … some 7 million Syrian refugees live in Turkey. Gazans freely chose to elect Ham-ASS in the only free elections in 2006. The Arafat claim made in the Oslo Accords that the PLO served as the sole representative of the Balestinian people – a lie on par with Yishmael rather than Yitzak the father of the chosen Cohen people. The huge population transfer of German populations directly aided by the Marshall Plan! Arab states unilateral expulsion of 900,000 Jewish refugees in 1948 has its consequences. The British justification of the puke 2nd White Paper which declared the land could not economically hold but a severly restricted number of Jewish European refugees a lie on par with Hitlers’ Fascism.
The 1948 Arab states’ actions against ~850,000–900,000 Jews were a deliberate, state-directed expulsion campaign that included property seizures, massacres (e.g., in Aleppo, Tripoli, etc.), forced marches (e.g., from Iraq), bank account freezes, citizenship revocation and more! That mass population transfer coordinated to erase the Jewish presence from the Arab world. The Arab League’s 1948 resolution (as reported by its own officials) encouraged or tolerated it. The 1948 Arab expulsions – a textbook case of ethnic cleansing on the scale of the Holocaust, committed by Arab governments against their own Jewish populations.
Ramaswamy’s foreign policy framework, often characterized as “America First realism,” prioritizes strict non-interventionism, national self-reliance, and reducing U.S. entanglements abroad. Based on his public statements, an administration under his command would likely navigate a scenario involving the displacement or transfer of Palestinian populations through several core principles: He has explicitly argued that neighboring Arab nations bear the primary responsibility for absorbing Palestinian refugees. During his 2024 campaign, he stated that the broader Arab and Islamic world should integrate Palestinians into their territories rather than expecting Israel or the Western coalition to negotiate statehood frameworks within the region. Under this rationale, he would likely treat a mass movement of populations into Syria or surrounding Arab countries as a regional issue for Middle Eastern states to manage independently.
Rather than deploying American military force, introducing economic sanctions, or mediating peace negotiations, a Ramaswamy administration would likely refrain from directly intervening to block or actively manage such actions. His platform emphasizes minimizing U.S. diplomatic pressure on allied nations regarding their internal defense decisions, provided those actions do not draw American forces into broader military conflicts.
Ramaswamy consistently criticizes international governing bodies, including the United Nations, human rights commissions, and international legal institutions. He would likely dismiss warnings or resolutions issued by international courts or the UN regarding violations of international law (such as the Fourth Geneva Convention) as overreach by globalist institutions, keeping American diplomatic machinery clear of international enforcement efforts.
Ramaswamy’s economic doctrine strongly opposes foreign aid expenditures. As such, he would oppose using American taxpayer dollars to fund the infrastructure, transportation, or long-term resettlement costs associated with moving civilian populations into neighboring regions. Ramaswamy advocates for expanding bilateral economic and security agreements between Israel and surrounding Arab states (which he has dubbed “Abraham Accords 2.0”). His primary interest in the region centers on economic normalization and establishing a coalition or regional economic alliance between the nations of the Middle East and North Africa.