Gun owners and gun-rights advocates who don’t think America’s gun-ban organizations are serious about putting anti-gun politicians in office at every level of government should consider what one group is doing in just one state.

So-called Everytown for Gun Safety, bankrolled by gun-ban billionaire Michael Bloomberg, recently announced a $1.6 million paid media campaign in Arizona in an effort to turn the 2024 elections into a win for the antis. The campaign will consist of new digital ads and direct mailers encouraging citizens to vote for anti-gun candidates.

“Our polling confirms that the overwhelming majority of Arizona voters are looking for candidates who will fight to keep our schools and our families safe from gun violence,” John Feinblatt, Everytown president, said in a press release. “Everytown is making sure voters know that Arizona communities would be at risk if MAGA Republicans have total control of Phoenix.”

One of the advertisements makes it sound like Republicans side with domestic abusers over abused women, which is an outright lie.

“When an abuser is armed, women are five times more likely to be killed,” a woman’s voice says as the video shows a woman cowering in a corner with her head in her hands. “MAGA Republicans like Jeff Weninger would make it easier for domestic abusers to get guns. Opposing gun safety laws in Phoenix, opposing red-flag laws and making 911 calls for domestic violence even deadlier for women and police. Jeff Weninger won’t keep us safe.”

While Everytown says Weninger wants to arm domestic abusers, a look at his record shows that he has supported every pro-gun measure introduced during his time in the House. That’s not dangerous—that’s protecting Second Amendment rights of Arizona’s lawful citizens.

The recent $1.6 million ad buy in Arizona is just one small part of the war chest Everytown is committing to getting gun-ban proponents elected this year. In June, the group announced it would spend $45 million to “help elect gun sense candidates and defeat gun extremists up and down the ballot in key swing districts and states.” The expenditures are focusing on young voters on college campuses, voters of color and suburban women in the critical states of Arizona, California, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

Last month, Everytown announced a $7.5 million investment to train and elect Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action volunteers, including many running in important races across the country.

With gun-banners throwing their wholehearted financial support behind candidates that would further infringe upon our right to keep and bear arms, the question is, what are we going to do about it. There is strength in numbers. Find a pro-gun group that is investing heavily in the election and make a contribution toward that effort. Groups that support the Second Amendment can’t let this critical election slip away because gun-ban organizations outspend them.

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    • … and in other “news”, the night is dark and water is wet.
      And that lever on the voting machine might not actually be connected to anything, but do choose carefully anyway.

    • And lie they do. Unfortunately the low information voter will look no further than the lies that the press reports.

    • It’s a loose knit coalition of selfish gimmies and people with axes, real or imaginary, to grind all trying to either steal something from somebody else, inflict pain on somebody else or both.

      Any -ism they claim to ascribe to is just a vehicle to justify for their crimes.
      All they know is destruction and they always destroy themselves but not before destroying everyone and everything else.

  1. “Why it’s Ok to not vote.” Catherine Mangu Ward. A great libertarian. Video 50 min long. She is the smartest person in the room.

  2. I sometimes wonder what these disarmament types and dementiacrats are so afraid of.
    Could it be they understand the reason the 2nd amendment was written?
    Sure, there is the militia clause but if you read the writings of the authors of the Constitution there is also the understanding our founders wanted that last, ultimate check on government authority and power.
    As was said by someone much more intelligent than many today, “When the government fears the citizens, you have liberty. When the citizens fear the government, you have tyranny.”

    • the federalist papers by the folks who wrote the constitution made it very clear that the people were to have the means to overthrown the government if it became tyrannical.

  3. “Find a pro-gun group that is investing heavily in the election and make a contribution”

    Or just make a contribution to your candidate of choice?

    Yeesh.

  4. Anyone who does not vote IS an idiot…”I’ll punish myself for their sins!” like a five year old taking his ball and going home. Of course, many idiots do vote… like the Harris/Waltz guy… vote if only to cancel one of theirs.

  5. The other lie is “Commonsense Gun Control”

    This translates as “Everything we can ban we will” in Blue states/areas.

  6. Are people in AZ really that stupid to buy the BS that Everytown (not really every town, they just think they represent every town) is selling?

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