Packard Foundation (funding)

Michael Bloomberg ($B)

Tides Foundation

Joyce Foundation

Organizing for America

George Soros

David Bohnett Foundation (funding)

Tides New Strategies Fund

United Against Illegal Guns Support

Fund

Timothy Johnson

Media Matters for America

US Department of Justice

Americans for Responsible

Solutions (ARS)

The Tsunami Fund

MoveOn.org

Gabby Giffords
Mark Kelly
Peter Ambler
(anyone who signs any petition at
change.org is counted as a
member.

International Association of Chiefs

of Police

Mark Prentice

Law Center to Prevent Gun

Violence
Violence Policy Center

Hayley Zachary
Mike K Beard
Josh Horwitz

Coalition to Stop Gun Violence

Ron Barber
Americans for Gun Safety
Responsible Firearms
Retailer Partnership (2008,
may be defunct)

Mayors Against Illegal Guns

(MAIG)

Michael Simon

Center for Public Integrity

Richard Block
Natalie Bump
Andrew Clark
Jill Dubois
Susan M. Hartnett
Ryan Hollon
So-young Kim
Danielle Morris
Stacy Pancratz Andrew
Papachristos
Catrina Roman
Jonathan Webber
Tao Xie
Jennifer Yahner

National Policy Opinion Center

American College of Preventive
Medicine

Daniel Webster PhD

Philip J. Cook

Northwestern University

David Hemenway

Wesley G.Skogan

Harvard School of Public Health

Jens Ludwig

Matthew Miller

Cryptoblog: Smartgunlaws.com
suspected pedophile:
https://twitter.com/Nicki_F/status/
579272763912900608/photo/1

Margie Omero

Entertainment Industries Council

Josh Sugarmann
Tom Diaz

Allison Anderman

Ladd Everitt

National Coalition to Ban Handguns

(former name est. 1974)

Momentum Analysis
Push-poller/PR/Propaganda

Cryptogroup
Americans United for Safe Streets

Robyn Thomas
Legal Community Against Violence
(older name)

HaystaqDNA
Third Way (supported, then
replaced AGS)

WalMart

Tracy Schmaler
University of Chicago

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg

School of Public Health

Jerry Thompson

Ashley Nash-Hahn

Parker, Poe, Adams & Bernstein

(Lobbyists)

Cryptoblog: Gun Fact

Anti-Gun Research Propaganda

Funding

US Davis School of Public Health

Staff

Brian Dyak
Garen Wintemute

American Academy of Pediatrics

Laura Quinn
Larry Deutchman

Robert Spitzer (SUNY Cortland)

Caralist

Gary Gruver

Marie Gallo Dyak

Joan Peterson

Huffington Post

Democrat office holders (all)

[formerly cryptoblog]
CloseTheLoophole.com

Jeremy Peters
Moms Take the Hill Gun Safety Action Fund, Inc.

[formerly cryptoblog]
OurLivesOurLaws.com

Andrew McKelvey ($B)

democracy alliance

Gun Sense

Max Nacheman
Caren Teves

Gun Free Kids

AlterNet

Jennifer Longdon

Susan Brozek Scott

Americans for Gun Safety

Foundation
United Nations

National Coalition of Mayors

Im a Gun Sense Voter

North Carolinians Against Gun

Violence

Its Time for Gun Sense in America

AKPD Message & Media

Dannel Malloy

Shannon Watts

Rick Gray, Lancaster PA

Betsy Mitchell

Armatix AG
Belinda Padilla

Scott Hogan

Charlotte Hendricks

California Gun Girls, LLC

Seffrah Orlando

Ernst Mauch

Hogan Lovells
Legal Services

Malia Ward

Kirsten Moore

cryptoblog:commonsenselancaster.com

One Million Moms for Gun

Control
(old name, meant to confuse
people with old and defunct
Million Mom March)

Kaaren Mary
Haldeman
+ 10 paid staff

Moms Demand - Texas

Pixie Monroe

John Mitchell

David Axelrod

Angela Snow
Toby Marquez
Todd Flournoy
Henri Bollinger
Andy Weisser
Tracy Thompson

Barbara Rew

Armatix USA

Rebecca Peters

ASK / ASGK Public Strategies

Stroller Jam

Skylar Jackson

Oak Tree Gun Club

Hillary Clinton 2016 campaign

Gun Sense Voter

Moms Demand Action for Gun
Sense in America (MDA)

Ross, Langan and McKendree, LLP

C.P.A.

Progressive NGOs

Ted Alcorn

(Former Crypto)group
DemandAPlan.org

Shawn King

Democrat office candidates (all)

Ann Wright
Everytown for Gun Safety

Everytown

NY Times

Independence USA

Minnesota for Gun Safety

Nancy Schoenke (former)

Abby Spangler
Sandy Hook Promise

Secret Donors

Alliance Center

Kelly Burke

Paul Kemp
phony anti-gun gun owner

International Action Network on

Small Arms

Mark Bergman

Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP

Legal Services

Tim McGraw
Chase Bryant
(anti-gun singers)

Nicole Hockley
Mark Barden

Art Morris
Craig Steadman
Art Marisco

Ruth McCambridge (flack)

Timothy Makris
Billy Currington
(anti-gun singer who wants it both ways)

Tarik Karam

Board

Joe Deaser

Bryan Miller

Progressive USA Voters

Logan Communications
(anti-gun billboard firm)

Heeding Gods Call

Colleen Daley

Capital Gun Club

Roseville, CA

Clear Channel Communications

(anti-gun billboard firm)

Logan Outdoor
(anti-gun billboard firm)
Clear Channel Outdoor
(anti-gun billboard firm)

Leah Gunn Barrett

Women Against Gun Violence
(California)

John Rosenthal

Domini Social Investments (Hedge

Fund)

Amy Domini

Stop Handgun Violence

Cryptoblog: OhhShoot

Illinois Campaign to Prevent Gun

Violence

Cryptoblog: LawAbidingCitizen?

Dan Coonan
Dave Dietz

Cure Violence
Cathy Buettner

Crime Gun Solutions (supports antigun lawsuits)

New Yorkers Against Gun Violence

Piers Morgan

Campaign to Stop Gun Violence

CSGV)
Ceasefire Pennsylvania

Gary Pudup
Paul McQuillen
Alexandra Dubroff

Ceasefire New Jersey

Shira Goodman

Waylan Johnson
The Sadonte Foundation

Center for American Progress

Ted Strickland

Brady Campaign
Full name, Brady Campaign to
Prevent Gun Violence

Evolve Together Inc. (for-profit?)

Cryptosite / tech support
Evolvinx LLC
Evolvinx.com
for-profit

Ad Agency: Kirschenbaum & Bond

Bob Barrie
Stuart DRozario

Dan Gross
Jonathan Lowy
Dennis Henigan
Tom Vanden Berk
Max Nacheman
Pete Shields (former)
Elizabeth S. Haile
Brian Malte

Educational Fund to Stop Gun

Violence

Ad Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi

Center for American Progress

Alliance for Sustainable Colorado Action Fund

Larissa Lozada

ProgressNOW Colorado

Coalition for Peace Action

Alla Lefkowicz
Colin Goddard

Sandy Phillips
Lonnie Phillips
(paid
employees)

Arnold & Porter, LLP - Denver

(antigun law firm)

ComeTogether Auction (defunct)

Paul Wayne Rodney
Thomas William Stoever , Jr.

Brady Center to Prevent Gun

Violence (Alternative name)
Handgun Control Inc. (Former
name)

Cryptoblog: State Gun Laws

Whats a Cryptoblog? Cryptogroup?
Cryptogroups are an essential ingredient (maybe the essential ingredient) in
modern astroturf. They are groups who present as local, grassroots groups but
are actually directed and funded by the same few national socialist activists,
politicians, and foundations.
A Cryptoblog is the same thing in an online-majority variant.

Penny Okamoto
Oregon State Police
(collaboration, lobbying)

These are, in classical propaganda theory, Grey (sponsor concealed) or

Black (sponsorship misattributed) propaganda.

LEGEND
Marquee Ban Groups (Large,
overt national anti-gun groups)

Kingpin$: the shadowy

moneybags behind it all
Astroturf: A false flag or misleadingly-named ban group
Supoort Element: Provides backup, logistics, infractructure to antigun astroturfers
General Purpose Lefty Group: Interests beyond gun bans, but also
toils in the anti-gun vineyards

Quisling:
Anti-Gun Gun Business
NewAn
Note

Baldr Odinson (crypto-identity of

Kilgore)

Georgians for Gun Safety

Independent Firearm Owners

Association

Richard Feldman

Physicians for Social Responsibility

Police Executive Research Forum
Students for Gun Free Schools
DCS Congressional (maker of lefty
and anti-gun websites. Their
involvement in independent group
= astroturf.

International Association of
Campus Law Enforcement
Administrators

Vicki Weaver
Lily Habtu
VTV Family Outreach Foundation

New Note

Real Hunters Real Conservation

32 National Campus Safety Initative

Eva Turgeon

Center for Gun Responsibility

centerforgunresponsibiliyty.org
wagunresponsibility.org
(same website)

Washington Alliance for Gun

Responsibility

Cryptoblog: Wounded in America

Cheryl Stumbo

Newspaper Loophole

Sandy Brown
Eric Liu
Phil Lloyd

former cryptoblog gunloophole.com

Emily Parzybok

Geoff Potter

former cryptoblog Stop The NRA

Wisconsin Anti Violence Effort

former cryptoblog NRA Blacklist

former cryptoblog NRA Leaders

Marylanders to Prevent Gun Violence

Jenn Lynch

Vinny DeMarco

former cryptoblog NRA Madness

Iowans for the Prevention of
Handgun Violence (defunct)

former cryptoblog ShootFirstLaw.org

Freedom States Alliance

(Formerly independent Joyce
grassroots, now a brand of
SUPGV)

Alison Kiss

S. Daniel Carter

Susan Burke
Granite State Progressives

Moms Demand NH

Former cryptogroup: God Not

Guns (exposed, now redirects to
Brady)

Security on Campus, Inc.

Clery Center for Security on
Campus

Lisa Nikodem

Amy Moore

Elizabeth Burke
Kelly Sampson
Brian J. Siebel
(ex-lawyer; now a realtor)

David Bohnett Foundation

MDA Washington
Zandra Rice Hawkins

Sources:
http://sharylattkisson.com/top-10-astroturfers/
http://daysofourtrailers.blogspot.com/p/anti-gun-primer.html
http://www.georgiapacking.org/links_antigun.php
http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/09/nras-chris-cox-false-flags-flying-high/
http://www.buckeyefirearms.org/anti-gun-groups-even-their-names-are-lies
http://dailycaller.com/2013/02/24/liberal-astroturf-group-offering-9-to-11-per-hour-to-join-its-gun-control-campaign/
http://www.grnc.org/pauls-blog/629-bloomberg-buys-50-million-in-astroturf
http://www.grnc.org/documents/Bloomberg_Astroturf.pdf
http://daysofourtrailers.blogspot.com/p/anti-gun-primer.html
http://daysofourtrailers.blogspot.com/2012/02/grassroots-isra-vs-astroturf-csgv-tale.html
http://vagunrights.com/tag/american-hunters-and-shooters-association/
https://www.nraila.org/articles/20080227/american-hunters-and-shooters-associati
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3AAmerican_Hunters_and_Shooters_Association
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0712/78835_Page2.html
http://www.guidestar.org/organizations/34-2000826/american-rifle-association.aspx
http://www.pagunblog.com/2013/07/05/american-rifle-and-pistol-association-responds/
http://www.pagunblog.com/2013/07/03/the-latest-not-really-pro-gun-group/
http://articles.philly.com/2012-07-09/news/32602247_1_gun-trafficking-gun-laws-gun-owners
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/02/opinion/nocera-changing-minds-after-newtown.html?_r=1&
http://www.ar15.com/archive/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=1670809
http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2013/07/11/gun-owners-brand-american-rifle-and-pistol-association-a-false-flag-operation
https://www.facebook.com/CoalitiontoStopGunViolence/photos/a.149713771722863.24741.147886928572214/1041172532576978/?type=1
https://www.atf.gov/sites/default/files/assets/ffls-2013-june/0613-ffl-list-california.txt
http://www.examiner.com/article/questions-grow-over-gun-range-s-relationship-with-un-supporting-aramatix
http://www.examiner.com/article/california-doj-asked-how-smart-gun-without-microstamping-made-safe-roster
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/local/wp/2014/03/06/the-smart-gun-controversy-at-oak-tree-gun-club/
http://thegunwriter.blogs.heraldtribune.com/18952/usf-astroturf-groups-targeting-campus-carry-bills/
https://hotair.com/archives/2015/02/19/ted-strickland-was-probably-hoping-nobody-would-notice-him-quitting-that-anti-gun-group/
http://www.buckeyefirearms.org/strickland-considers-senate-run-gun-owners-should-consider-his-recent-work-dc
http://www.buckeyefirearms.org/node/8759
http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/news/gun-control-opponents-supporters-express-their-vie/nT7qs/
http://www.pagunblog.com/2015/02/25/brady-campaign-backs-down-from-promises-to-anti-gun-pols/
http://fox43.com/2015/02/23/pro-bono-offer-for-legal-defense-in-gun-lawsuit/
http://www.radnor.com/egov/docs/1268163506_314727.pdf
http://articles.philly.com/2012-09-11/news/33738421_1_gun-violence-straw-purchasers-max-nacheman
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/max-nacheman/6/8a/651
http://bearingarms.com/moms-demand-founder-redefines-defeat-open-carry-legislation-advances-texas/
http://bearingarms.com/texas-moms-demand-leader-lied-texas-senate-perjury/
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/398578/texas-mom-who-demands-action-lies-camera-charles-c-w-cooke
http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/giffords-s-gun-control-group-plots-path-forward-after-rough-2014-debut-20150301
http://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/editorial/2014/09/19/giffords-mcsally-ad/15886733/
http://www.azcentral.com/story/azdc/2014/09/16/martha-mcsally-stalker-ad-giffords-kelly/15734479/
http://www.weerdworld.com/2015/images-of-the-antis-if-the-shoe-fits/
http://m.lancasteronline.com/news/local/gun-rights-attorney-wants-names-of-donors-to-lancaster-s/article_70a70762-bdf8-11e4-b183-6f1728e5457c.html?mode=jqm
http://www.progressivestoday.com/meet-bloombergs-out-of-state-operatives-in-washington/
http://www.progressivestoday.com/busted-mother-jones-caught-lying-airport-spitting-incident-was-a-hoax-video/
http://www.eiconline.org/topic-areas/gun-violence-firearm-safety-injury-prevention/depiction-suggestions/
http://www.eiconline.org/about-us/staff-directory/
http://www.eiconline.org/about-us/board-of-directors/
http://www.skogan.org/files/Evaluation_of_CeaseFire-Chicago_Main_Report.03-2009.pdf
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20150305/NEWS02/150309860/rauner-halts-funding-for-ceasefire
http://www.wptz.com/news/vermont-senate-advances-trimmeddown-gun-ownership-bill/32008822
http://ia801500.us.archive.org/23/items/gov.uscourts.cod.151625/gov.uscourts.cod.151625.docket.html
http://www.momentumdc.com/case-studies/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/search.php/?s_it=csr&q=omero+guns
https://nonprofitquarterly.org/policysocial-context/25873-boston-businessman-s-anti-gun-violence-message-sustained-by-peers-as-massive-billboard-is-moved.html
https://nonprofitquarterly.org/component/taxonomy/term/summary/302/137.html?Itemid=137
http://www.shotgunnews.com/politics/sandy-hook-promise-anti-gun-lets-check/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sandy-hook-promise-anti-gunlets-check
http://nyagv.org/governor-cuomo-families-of-sandy-hook-promise-and-nyagv-founders-to-be-honored-at-annual-benefit/
http://nyagv.org/nyagv-in-the-news-concealed-carry/
http://www.newstimes.com/local/article/Sandy-Hook-mom-stars-in-Malloy-s-new-TV-ad-5668146.php
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/better-two-years-sandy-hook-connecticuts-gun-laws-changed/
http://nyagvedfund.org/community-workshops-the-sadonte-foundation-2/
http://ia601500.us.archive.org/23/items/gov.uscourts.cod.151625/gov.uscourts.cod.151625.8.0.pdf
http://www.pagunblog.com/2015/04/24/brady-victim-exploitation-reaching-new-lows/
http://www.albanylawreview.org/Articles/Vol78_2/78.2.789%20Halbrook.pdf
http://www.newsweek.com/sandy-hook-promise-turning-pain-prevention-291698
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c91usL5kdyU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlq8xIRfT3I
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Handgun_Violence
http://www.massnews.com/past_issues/other/4_Apr/shv.htm
http://www.inquisitr.com/2044826/tim-mcgraw-continues-to-defend-sandy-hook-benefit-concert/
http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/2015/05/timothy-johnson-soros-paid-gun-banner.html
http://thegunwriter.blogs.heraldtribune.com/11842/who-is-richard-feldman/
http://dailycaller.com/2015/05/03/clinton-hires-anti-gun-astroturfer-for-her-grassroots-campaign/
http://www.examiner.com/article/gun-owners-for-gun-control-useful-to-anti-gunners-for-now
http://www.examiner.com/article/how-is-moveon-org-gun-owner-a-proud-defender-of-the-second-amendment
http://www.guns.com/2015/05/08/gun-rights-lawsuit-over-washington-background-check-law-dismissed/

Jody Powell
A. Austin Dorr

American Rifle and Pistol

Association (ARPA) (R+P)

Cryptoblog: KidShootings
States United to Prevent Gun
Violence

National Gun Victiims Action

Council (NGAV)
(cryptosubsidiary of Brady)

Ceasefire Washington
Legal Action Project of the Brady
Center (former lawsuit center)

Bob Ricker

Meera Bhardwaj
Cryptoblog: NewTrajectory

Ad Agency: Barrie DRozario Murphy (Minneapolis)

Million Mom March (MMM)
(Once independent, absorbed by
Bradys after financial collapse/
scandal)

American Rifle Association

Peter Vogt
Robert Gelinas

Joe Grace
Ceasefire Oregon

Jason Kilgore
Andrew Goddard

Obama Campaign

CNN

Oregon PIRG

Coalition to Stop Gun Violence

Alternative website:
takeonthecode.com
Claudine Cheever

American Hunters & shooters

Association (AHSA)

Bill Schneider
Cyrus R. Vance, Jr.
Joan Wallstein
Carolyn McCarthy

Jim Higgins

Jon Bond
Rebecca Bond

Modernista!
(anti-gun ad agency)

Rick Cohen (flack)

Ray Schoenke
Richir Outreach (websites)

Adina Taubman

Illinois Council Against Handgun

Violence

EVOLVE
aka Evolve.us

Coonan Inc.
(gun manufacturer)

Common Sense about Kids and

Guns
(Rosenthal cryptogroup)

Joseph J. Vince, Jr.

Illinois Council Against Handgun
Violence

former cryptoblog Ban Handguns

Now.org

Daniel F. Conley
Stephen Ross

Shaina Harrison

Cryptoblog: ArmedRoadRage

Outfront Media
(anti-gun billboard firm)

Protest Easy Guns

Barbara Hohlt
Ellen Freudenheim
Katina Johnstone

New England Coalition to Prevent

Gun Violence

Trustees
Herman Rush, Trustees Chairman
John Landgraf, Chairman,
PRISM Awards Honorary
Committee
Chris Albrecht
Wallis Annenberg
Dick Askin
Jeffrey Barbakow
Gail Berman
Frank Biondi
Norman Brokaw
Lori Burgess
Jim Caparro
Tim Conway
Lana Corbi
Barbara Corday
Robert A. Daly
Nicole David
Gordon Davidson
Suzanne dePasse
Barry Diller
Dennis Doty
Robert Dowling
Charles W. Fries
Michael Fuchs
David Geffen
Gary Goddard
J. William Grimes
Sandy Grushow
Paul Haggis
Jules Haimovitz
Ted Harbert
Garry Hart
Mindy Herman
Andy Heyward
Alan Horn
Gene Jankowski
Robert L. Johnson
Alan Ladd, Jr.
John Landgraf
Sherry Lansing
Stan Lee
Kim LeMasters
Jordan Levin
Peter Liguori
Margaret Loesch
Frank Mancuso
Chris McGurk
Gerald McRaney
Mike Medavoy
Leslie Moonves
Norm Nixon
I. Martin Pompadur
William C. Paley
Harold Prince
Spencer Proffer
Phil Quartararo
David Rehr
Kevin Reilly
Burt Reynolds
Fredric Rosen
James H. Rosenfield
Peter Roth
Jeff Sagansky
Lucie Salhany
Scott Sassa
Lynn Segall
Terry Semel
Sid Sheinberg
Bradley Siegel
Herbert Siegel
Fred Silverman
Gordon Smith
Seymour Stein
Neil Stiles
Tom Tardio
Nancy Tellem
Renee Valente
Dean Valentine
Tony Vinciquerra
Louis P. Weiss
James A. Wiatt
Alan Wurtzel
http://www.eiconline.org/about-us/
trustees/#sthash.SZt61Zv4.dpuf

Hoosiers Concerned about Gun

Violence

Wisconsin Against Gun Violence

former cryptoblog License to

Murder

Ohio Coalition Against Gun

Violence

former cryptoblog
StopGunDeaths.org

New Yorkers Against Gun Violence

former cryptoblog Who Is Mary Rosh?

Citizens for a Safer Minnesota

former cryptoblog 50 Caliber

Terror.com

Protect Minnesota

WKEF-TV ABC 22
WHIO-TV

Dayton Daily News

Jerome McCorry
(Felon, Rapist, Registered Sex
Offender)

Adam Project (Dayton, OH)

2015 Weaponsman.com

Carolinians for Sensible Gun Laws

Chicago Project for Violece

Prevention

Tio Hardiman

Chicago Cease-Fire
Gary Slutkin
Gun Sense Vermont

Ann Braden

Joe Samaha

BOD Exec Committee

Brian L. Dyak
David Goldsmith
Herman Rush
William N. Utz
http://www.eiconline.org/about-us/
board-of-directors/

Non-Executive (Figurehead) Directors

Bob Okun
Frank Wheaton
Gary Benz
Leroy Bobbitt
Lionel Chetwynd
Michele Lee
Melissa Rivers
Nancy Dockry
Ralph Andrews
Roland McFarland
Vincent DiBona