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By Larry Keane
In 2023, earlier than he handed management obligations over to his son, Alexander, Open Society Basis CEO and billionaire George Soros made a beneficiant donation to a world gun management group whose objective is to bankrupt lawful and extremely regulated American companies.
The monetary present was sofa cushion cash to Soros, however represented practically 35 p.c of the working price range of International Motion on Gun Violence (GAGV) — the only largest contribution to the group so far.
Along with a $250,000 donation from Mexico — sure, the overseas nation — GAGV has registered as a overseas agent on behalf of different nations and spent the previous two years suing American firearm producers in makes an attempt to carry them accountable for crimes dedicated exterior of america.
An American donating cash to a company that fights to eradicate the means for law-abiding People to train their Second Modification rights is the alternative of being patriotic.
Mexico’s Failed Hail Mary
Fortunately, america has a Supreme Court docket comprised of People who perceive our nation doesn’t bend the knee to overseas governments’ calls for that we clear up their issues for them.
A unanimous resolution — that’s 9-0 — handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court docket strengthened that actuality in a ruling and obliterated Mexico’s $10 billion lawsuit in opposition to lawful American firearm producers, together with Smith & Wesson, Inc., and others. That failed lawsuit tried to carry them chargeable for the narco-terrorist drug cartel violence that plagues Mexico and its folks.
Jonathan Lowy, the lawyer behind that spectacular failure, quarterbacked the failed authorized Hail Mary and was funded by GAGV by the Soros donation and others. Referencing the bipartisan 2005 regulation enacted below former President George W. Bush, the Safety of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA), the Supreme Court docket Justices had been succinct.
“Recall that Congress enacted the statute to halt a flurry of lawsuits making an attempt to make gun producers pay for the downstream harms ensuing from misuse of their merchandise,” wrote Justice Elena Kagan within the unanimous resolution. “In a ‘findings’ and ‘functions’ part, Congress defined that PLCAA was meant to cease these fits — to forestall producers (and sellers) from being held ‘responsible for the hurt brought on by those that criminally or unlawfully misuse firearm[s].’ Mexico’s swimsuit carefully resembles those Congress had in thoughts: It seeks to get well from American firearms producers for the downstream injury Mexican cartel members wreak with their weapons.”
The failure within the highest court docket within the land by Lowy and GAGV wasn’t shocking. For Soros, his son Alex who now helms the Open Society Basis, and different gun management teams, that end result doesn’t matter a lot. To them, it’s the method — particularly the price of litigation — they care about to bankrupt firearm companies alongside the best way.
Unfold It Out
As The Washington Free Beacon notes, the cash for Mexico wasn’t the tip of the spigot. GAGV registered as a overseas agent of the Bahamas in June 2024 to “to research, analyze, advise and litigate actions” as a way to “scale back firearms trafficking to, and gun violence” there, Free Beacon reported. In addition they unfold north and now signify a number of households in Ontario, Canada, in opposition to Smith & Wesson, too.
These pricey litigation endeavors can be all however inconceivable if not for the deep wallets of the Soros household, trying to obtain gun management victories by monetary suffocation of companies, not by laws by duly elected representatives in our personal nation and authorities.
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Of the cash from Soros and the Open Society Basis, GAGV paid lip service in explaining their objectives. “We issued this grant as a result of we wish to curtail cartel and gang violence and lower off the circulation of weapons that’s enabling drug trafficking, which is killing Americans,” a spokesperson for the group stated.
Once more, the ignoring of the truth that not one of the firearms illegally obtained in these overseas nations had been supplied by authorized extremely regulated processes is of irrespective of to the Soroses, the Open Society Basis, GAGV or different gun management allies. Of their estimation, no authorized firearm producer is appropriate and the cash will proceed to circulation, even by supposed court docket “failures.”
Subsequent Man Up
The youthful Soros, Alexander, has already made it abundantly clear he is not going to simply proceed his father’s work, however will go even farther to dole out the Open Society Basis’s roughly $1.5 billion to favored causes. That features large spending by Democracy PAC, Soros’s political motion committee that broadly and unabashedly backs “criminal-justice-reform prosecutors.” That complete eclipsed $175 million within the 2022 election cycle.
To present a way of the place Alex Soros will proceed to focus his efforts in attacking the firearm business, he posted an image of himself with an ear-to-ear grin standing subsequent to New York Metropolis Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, proudly stating, “So proud to be a New Yorker! The American dream continues! Congrats, Mayor @ZohranKMamdani!”
The following mayor, in fact, helps excessive police reform, believes “violence is a synthetic assemble” and said on social media, “We have to ban all weapons.”
In case you thought the elder Soros was giving unfathomable sums of cash to battle in opposition to Constitutional rights and lawful firearm companies that enable law-abiding People to train these rights, simply wait to see how a lot the youthful Soros is keen to spend.
That is why the Safety of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act exists and it’ll by no means be clearer — and extra vital — than within the years forward.
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