Government has access to the limitless purse of taxpayer funds, and deficit spending in case that runs short. Gun rights groups depend on donations – some from wealthy individuals and corporations and foundations, but mostly from members writing checks to support a cause they believe in. At the same time, those same voluntary donors are also paying mandatory taxes to the government that opposes their pleas for justice.

https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2025/06/04/writer-for-the-trace-refutes-his-own-argument-against-bruen-n1228821

correction for : “when it comes to the 2A, most justify it in accordance with SCOTUS Buren analysis. ”

should have been…

…when it comes to the 2A, must justify it in accordance with SCOTUS Buren analysis.

“Because the government bears the burden of justifying its restrictions—and good historical research is expensive—well-funded gun rights groups have a leg up.”

and they should…they are acting as an ‘entity’ of government while working for the government. Government is suppose to be accountable to the people, this means government must justify what they do and, when it comes to the 2A, most justify it in accordance with SCOTUS Buren analysis.

Maybe you forget, for many years there was the ‘unconstitutional’ ‘interest balancing’ scheme used by courts and governments to give governments an assured win in any 2A case (well, most 2A cases) and most cases involving constitutional rights. It was unfair and unjust and discriminatory, it was never suppose to be. But the problem was, if the constitution was followed then governments (i.e. federal, state, county, city) could not gain the power and control over the people they craved to have – thus ‘interest balancing’ was born where, basically, the people had to overcome the governments ‘interest’ and that was for the most part an impossible hill to climb so usually the government got their way. This was never suppose to be – it removed government accountability to the people and the power of the people over government that the people are constitutionally suppose to have. In short, for many years ‘government’ and courts ran roughshod over the people slowing stripping away or controlling that which rightfully belonged to the people and the courts went with it in the name of ‘government interest’

“The imbalance in resources often results in judges having to weigh competing interpretations of history—one produced by academics…”

Judges are not suppose to be listening to academics interpretation of history. They are suppose to be using the Buren analysis, and making government justify IAW Bruen. There ya go, problem solved.

And after many years of illegal and unconstitutional actions by government and anti-gun organizations and various courts, you write this stupid missive at The Trace basically complaining “Ohhhh…constitutional rights wins for a change – Foul! I cry Foul! its unfair that government and anti-gun organizations and various courts can’t do their illegal and unconstitutional actions any more and defeat the constitutional rights to take them away and control them.”

You are a moron.

They aren’t being “mandatorily taxpayer funded” any longer and what they did get previously was illegal and was mostly through that USAID money laundering scheme which has been shut down.