‘Assault on Our Sovereignty’: How George Soros Funds Foreign Government Lawsuits Against American Gun Makers

Soros’s Open Society Foundations gave $300,000 to Global Action on Gun Violence as the group ramped up its work for Mexico and other foreign governments

By Chuck Ross

Liberal billionaire George Soros bankrolls an anti-gun group that sues American gun manufacturers on behalf of Mexico and other foreign governments, a controversial legal strategy that gun rights advocates call an “affront to the sovereignty of the United States of America.”

Soros’s Open Society Foundations (OSF) gave $300,000 to Global Action on Gun Violence (GAGV) in 2023 for a two-year “general support” grant, according to unreported records.

GAGV, which formed in 2022, registered as a foreign agent of Mexico the same year to represent the country in a $10 billion lawsuit against Smith & Wesson, the Tennessee-based gun manufacturer. It’s part of a novel legal strategy that GAGV “pioneered” in hopes of generating “international pressure to reform the gun industry,” as GAGV cofounder Elizabeth Burke put it.

OSF, which pours hundreds of millions of dollars a year into a variety of left-wing causes, provided a significant boost to GAGV’s operations, and thus its legal work for Mexico. The OSF donation is the largest known grant to GAGV to date, and made up one-third of all donations it received in 2023. The Mexican government paid $250,000 to GAGV for its legal work the same year, according to filings submitted to the Department of Justice under the Foreign Agents Registration Act.