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Joyce Foundation, Heller case, and Obama

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I've mentioned the Joyce Foundation, and its devotion of millions to funding anti-second amendment scholarship.

Yesterday, Politico.com ran an interesting story, noting that Joyce's efforts date to when a lawyer named Barack Obama sat on its Board. Joyce's protests that they really aren't antigun, just funding legal research, is shot down with the note that all the groups they sent money to filed amicus briefs supporting DC in the Heler case.

UPDATE: here's HotAir's take on it.

"Lately, the political world has buzzed about Barack Obama?s tenure with the Woods Foundation, where he worked with domestic terrorist William Ayers and which issued a $75,000 grant to Yasser Arafat toady Rashid Khalidi. However, Politico has found another paid foundation gig which may raise even more questions about Obama?s positions and honesty. While working as a director at the Joyce Foundation, the organization funneled almost $3 million in grants to political groups opposing gun rights ...."

Full post as published by Of Arms and the Law on April 21, 2008 (boomark / email).