Why is Kweisi Mfume Funneling $245K in Federal Funds to Johns Hopkins for Gun Locks That Are Already Available for Free?

You probably already know that a high profile department of Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins University is the Bloomberg School of Public Health. The school is, of course, named for and significantly funded by the largesse of America’s foremost gun-grabber, former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

Hizzoner is also the owner force behind such august civilian disarmament advocacy operations as Mayors Against Illegal Guns, Everytown for Gun Safety, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense In America, The Trace and the Independence USA PAC.

Anyway, back to Johns Hopkins. The Bloomberg School houses something called the JHU Center for Gun Violence Solutions. It’s basically a clearinghouse to launder civilian disarmament “research” and wishcasted gun control policy advocacy so that it can be sold to the media and then the public while cloaked in a thin veneer of university-sponsored academic authority and gravitas.

JHU’s latest ivy tower-derived brainstorm is distributing “devices to ensure the safe storage of firearms” through the Johns Hopkins Hospital and clinical offices. In other words, they want to hand out gun locks (along with lock boxes).

Toward that end, the school figured, why not let the government fund it? So they’ve applied for and received a grant of $245,000 thanks to a pot of pork allocated to Maryland Congressman Kweisi Mfume for his district.

But…Baltimoreans have had access to gun locks. The city ran its own free gun lock program last summer through the city’s libraries.

And here’s the thing…the firearm industry already does this. In fact, they’ve been doing it. For decades. The NSSF runs Project ChildSafe through which they’ve handed out over 31 million gun locks, at no charge, in all 50 states. They’ve teamed up with about 15,000 law enforcement agencies — including the Baltimore PD — to get that done.

NSSF tells us that all Baltimore has to do is ask for more and they’ll provide them. At zero cost to taxpayers…local, state or federal.

But maybe the prospect of the Bloomberg School, that’s named for America’s most prominent gun-grabber, handing out locks provided by the gun industry is more than anyone at Johns Hopkins can handle. Better, then, to have taxpayers foot the bill, right? Besides, the school has demonstrated that they’re more than happy to hoover up as many federal tax dollars as they can to further the cause of civilian disarmament.

In the mean time, NSSF will still be out there providing gun locks — and info on how to safely secure your guns — to anyone who asks for one. And no taxpayer dollars will be used to foot the bill.