Cut backs at Joyce?

[Tvandermyde]

Thirdpower has found something here.

 

He sent me an email about the new Joyce grants. Specifically:

 

http://www.joycefdn.org/GrantList/GrantDet...x?grantId=32319

 

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Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence

 

Chicago, IL

Amount: $350,000

Length: 12

 

For continued support of its public, media, and policy-maker education efforts to promote firearm policy reform in Illinois, and to integrate the activities of the Illinois Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence into the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence

 

 

Then upon looking at the other grants I noticed this:

 

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Freedom States Alliance</SPAN>

 

Chicago, IL

Amount: $115,000

Length: 6

 

To support its transition following a merger with States United to Prevent Gun Violence and its continued efforts on behalf of state gun violence prevention groups.

 

So based upon these, it looks like there is some consolidation going on. LCAV is funded by Joyce. They came in and started the Illinois Campaign group here in Illinois.

 

http://www.icpgv.org/

 

Now it looks like they will be merged with ICHV or vice versa. And we have Freedom States Allaince, you know the Karlin boys who run gunguys.com, 50calterror and those other BS websites will be folded into States United. Hmmmmm.

 

 

Me thinks there is a bit of downsizing going on in the gun control groups. It this because of the economy? Is this because Joyce took a bath in the market? Is this simply a business decision to look at the return on their investment? Or is this the ghost of things to come has the Heller decision and soon to be McDonald sink in and they see the writing on the wall?

 

 

Big hat tip to Thirdpower for looking at this and finding it.

[Molly B.]

Oh, this could be sweet!

[Thirdpower]

There are some other notables missing like WAVE. Joshie Sugarmann is also going to have to tighten his belt this year as they took a cut of $115K.

 

http://daysofourtrailers.blogspot.com/2010...ling-pinch.html

[Buzzard]

More and more liberal parasites are going to be forced to find a real job, instead of feeding off the Joyce Foundations' antigun funding.

[THE KING]

How do you say

 

TITANIC

 

They're on it :lips sealed:

[templar223]

Grant size from Joyce to ICHV was same as last year. Merger is interesting.

 

John

[anonymous too]

Are gun control groups failing??????

 

I've said so for a few years.

[PPK]

How do you say

 

TITANIC

 

They're on it :lips sealed:

"The ship is not sinking. And I intend to go down with it."

[GarandFan]

Interesting news. We shall see how they intend to spin the merger when they announce it.

 

I suspect it's possible that they are rethinking their funding and strategies in anticipation of a post-McDonald world. I understand that gun control is one of the "pet issues" of some of the high-ups at Joyce. I doubt they are going to go away ... but the economic and legal situations have got to be weighing heavily on them.

 

And that makes me happy. Most anytime the tyranny of rich elitist social engineers is diminished ... the better. I have come to view the Joyce as just that ... a small group of wealthy, entitlement-minded elites that are attempting to engineer social policy. Looking at their ties to collective-view 2A scholarship, this becomes particularly clear.

[Gray Peterson]

Simply put, most of these anti-gun group fundings are from people who want to have British-style gun control, with gun confiscation and a 2A that isn't worth anything. When Heller happened, it destroyed that chance ever happening in the United States, and with McDonald coming down the pike, where it's very clear that SCOTUS will apply 2A strongly to the states, those "rich donors" would stop funding anti-gun activity in the United States.