{"id":1554825,"date":"2022-07-14T14:04:48","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T18:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1554825"},"modified":"2022-07-14T16:50:48","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T20:50:48","slug":"democrat-dark-money-group-pours-money-into-promoting-gun-control-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-dark-money-group-pours-money-into-promoting-gun-control-legislation\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Dark Money Group Pours Money Into Promoting Gun Control Legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocrat-dark-money-group-pours-money-into-promoting-gun-control-legislation%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1554825&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/GettyImages-1408056663-scaled-e1657816984440.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A Democratic Party-associated dark money group is promoting Congress\u2019 recent gun control legislation, the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/buildingbacktogether.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Build Back Together<\/a>, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/02\/07\/democratic-dark-money-groups-prepare-campaign-to-support-biden-supreme-court-pick.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">non-profit<\/a> group that supported President Joe Biden\u2019s nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, announced Thursday that it is funding a six-figure ad campaign to promote the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sinema.senate.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2022-06\/bipartisan_safer_communities_act_text.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bipartisan Safer Communities Act\u00a0<\/a>in key midterm swing states, The Hill <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/3559025-pro-biden-group-pours-money-into-touting-bipartisan-gun-safety-law\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The group is reportedly targeting Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Nevada with an ad campaign celebrating the bill Biden signed into law. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/24\/bipartisan-safer-communities-act-house-gun-control-bill-joe-biden-sign\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED:\u00a014 House Republicans Join With Every Democrat To Send Gun Control Bill To Biden\u2019s Desk)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cGun violence is tearing our country apart. For the first time in decades, Congress has done something about it,\u201d stated the 30-second ad, titled \u201cBottom Line.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis new law addresses loopholes, strengthens background checks for those under 21, and provides funding for mental health and crisis intervention programs,\u201d the ad continues. \u201cSome doubted it was possible but President Biden got it done. And Joe Biden knows we need more action to keep our communities safe. It\u2019s about saving lives. That\u2019s the bottom line.\u201d<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>Fifteen Republican senators, including Texas Sen. John Cornyn and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, joined all 50 Democrats in passing the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act.<\/p>\n<p>Some conservatives <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cruz.senate.gov\/newsroom\/press-releases\/sen-cruz-statement-on-gun-legislation-vote\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">criticized<\/a> the legislation as a way for the U.S. government to \u201cdisarm law-abiding citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cornyn, who <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/17\/john-cornyn-heckled-texas-republican-party-gun-control\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">received<\/a> boos and jeers at the Texas Republican State Convention after supporting the gun control legislation, told reporters Tuesday that Republicans are done supporting gun control legislation. Biden said he was \u201cdetermined\u201d to ban \u201cweapons of war\u201d and \u201chigh-capacity magazines\u201d in the aftermath of the Highland Park mass shooting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt seemed to me to be yesterday the president talked about everything that they wanted but they didn\u2019t get in the bill,\u201d said Cornyn, <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/3555931-cornyn-shuts-door-on-additional-gun-control-talks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according<\/a> to The Hill. \u201cBut the sort of things he was calling for don\u2019t have support in the Senate or in the Congress on a bipartisan basis. In other words, they can\u2019t get done.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Some doubted it was possible but President Biden got it done&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":495,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1554825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/495"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1554825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1554825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1554825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1554825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}