The Supreme Court ruled 9-0 last year that Mexico could not sue American gun makers out of existence.
Mexico didn't walk away – it hired an American group to finish the job from inside Washington.
What that group bought with Mexico's money, and which Democratic senators signed on to help, is now in a Justice Department filing.
How Mexico's $300,000 Foreign Agent Contract Targeted Your Senator
Global Action on Gun Violence isn't some fringe outfit operating out of a basement.
It's a Washington-based nonprofit registered with the Justice Department as Mexico's official foreign agent – and a June 9, 2026 DOJ filing confirms it kept providing "legal, advisory, consultancy, and lobbying services" to Mexico through April 30 of this year.
Mexico's May 2025 contract spelled out exactly what it purchased.
The agreement directed "awareness-raising efforts" at United States senators, House members, state legislators, and American security agencies.
It funded research designed to blame the American firearms industry for cartel violence south of the border.
It paid for training sessions for Mexican government officials on how to "position key messages regarding U.S. gun policy" – covering the Second Amendment, federal gun laws, and the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act – the exact law that shielded American gun makers from Mexico's $10 billion shakedown at the Supreme Court.
Schiff, Warren, and Soros All Backed the Group Registered as Mexico's Foreign Agent
Global Action on Gun Violence endorsed Sen. Dick Durbin's Stop Arming Cartels Act, co-sponsored by Adam Schiff, Elizabeth Warren, and Cory Booker.
The bill would ban civilian manufacture and sale of .50-caliber rifles, require registration of existing rifles, and punch a hole through the federal liability shield that just defeated Mexico at the Supreme Court.
The group's newsletters promoted Rep. Dan Goldman – a Democrat from New York – in a gun-trafficking discussion.
Its advisory committee lists former Democratic Rep. Michael Barnes and New York State Sen. Zellnor Myrie.
George Soros's Open Society Foundations is a confirmed financial backer – NRA-ILA documented a two-year, $300,000 Open Society grant to the group in 2023, the same year the group was steering Mexico's legal strategy against American gun companies.
The funding trail is not complicated: Soros money funds the organization; the organization registers as Mexico's foreign agent; Mexico's contract funds lobbying directed at congressmen; Democratic lawmakers co-sponsor the group's priority legislation.
That is not a coincidence. That is a machine.
What They Admitted They Are Actually Trying to Do
After the Supreme Court unanimously rejected Mexico's case, founder Jonathan Lowy's complaint wasn't about Mexico.
It was about the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act making "lawsuits against gun manufacturers harder to bring than against any other industry."
Mexico's lawsuit was never really about Mexico – it was a vehicle to destroy the liability shield protecting American gun makers, and if that shield falls, the litigation wave that follows would gut the American firearms industry from the inside out.
Global Action on Gun Violence has formally urged the Supreme Court to overturn District of Columbia v. Heller and New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen – the two landmark rulings that established your individual right to own a firearm and carry it for self-defense.
Lowy called it a "frontal attack" when he announced the effort in August 2023.
The group's own website names the broader strategy: they call it the "outside game," arguing that foreign governments can pressure Washington into stronger gun restrictions "by imposing costs in bilateral and international dealings" – using foreign sovereigns as leverage to accomplish what American politicians won't attempt on their own.
Mexico lost at the Supreme Court but the lobbying operation and Democrat partnerships kept running. The Democratic partnerships kept running.
Gun grabbers are still working to overturn the Heller and Bruen decisions.
What a foreign government's influence operation against the Second Amendment actually looks like is not a cartel member with a weapon.
It looks like a Washington nonprofit, a DOJ filing, a $300,000 contract, and a Senate bill with Schiff's name on it.
Sources:
- Natalie Winters, "American Gun-Control Group Is Funded By The Mexican Government," Substack, September 19, 2026.
- NRA-ILA, "George Soros's Open Society Funded Foreign Agents' Lawsuits Against U.S. Gun Industry," NRA-ILA, December 15, 2025.
- NSSF, "The Industry's Resounding Supreme Court Victory," NSSF, June 11, 2025.
- Washington Free Beacon, "'Assault on Our Sovereignty': How George Soros Funds Foreign Government Lawsuits Against American Gun Makers," Washington Free Beacon, December 2025.
