Everytown for Gun Safety Spent $2.6m on Nevada Background Check Ballot Initiative. So Far.

By Robert Farago

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is the Daddy Warbucks of the civilian disarmament movement. Yeah, I know…that’s an oxymoron. But anyone who thinks billionaire Bloomberg’s deep-pocketed support for gun control isn’t a clear and preset danger to Americans’ natural, civil and Constitutionally protected right to keep and bear arms can take the oxy off that word and apply it to themselves. lasvegassun.com has looked into the finances of Nevadans for Background Checks — a group pushing a ballot initiative expanding background checks to virtually every firearm transaction — and found Mikey’s their main man . . .

Of the $3.6 million in contributions to Nevadans for Background Checks over the last two years, $2.9 million came from Everytown.

Other early big ticket contributions in 2014 included $250,000 from Napster co-founder and former Facebook president Sean Parker and $150,000 from Washington venture capitalist Nick Hanauer, the top individual contributor supporting his state’s background check initiative.

So the people without whom Nevadans for Background Checks wouldn’t exist aren’t Nevadans. That information’s not bound to please Silver State residents. Which is why scribe Megan Messerly’s story contains a good deal of dissembling. Like this:

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Source:: Truth About Guns