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October 15, 2025
Former Deputy Director of Biden’s Office of Gun Violence Prevention Exposes the Absurdity Soros is Funding
A recent U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing titled “Blue City Chaos and Tragedy: How the Trump Administration Is Addressing the Human Cost of Soft-on-Crime Policies” exposed the lunacy that billionaire gun control proponent George Soros, along with his son, Alex, is actively funding.
One hearing witness was Gregory Jackson, Jr., the deputy director of former President Joe Biden’s White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention. He’s currently the head of the Community Justice Action Fund (CJAF). Judiciary committee members, and even other panelists, were ready to pick apart his organization’s dangerous statements and unmask the wealthy antigun individuals funding it.
Establishing Ties to Soros
Republican senators were quick to highlight the fact that Soros, and now his son, have been major benefactors when it comes to funding soft-on-crime prosecutors who let criminals off the hook.
It makes sense that Jackson was a key witness. He spent more than 10 years as a gun control advocate for a number of organizations, including the Soros-backed Tides Foundation Community Justice Action Fund. He also worked as Director of Community Relations for Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser.
Jackson has a well-documented animus against law enforcement. The Washington Free Beacon reported Jackson participated in a January 2021 University of Maryland policing seminar when he lamented that he is “struggling to survive while … police budgets thrive.”
During the hearing, Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) highlighted problematic CJAF statements, including a 2020 letter which stated, “‘We must divest from aggressive policing.’ [The letter] further stated, ‘Public health approaches must be prioritized over policing to end gun violence’, and that ‘an anti-racist approach must always be a part of policymaking and advocacy on gun violence prevention.’”
For Soros, Jackson and other allies, their goal is to cut law enforcement in communities while at the same time restricting the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding Americans undermining their ability to defend themselves, their families and property.
Straight Lies About ‘Rogue’ Retailers
This wasn’t Jackson’s first time testifying at a congressional hearing about his previous and current gun control efforts, either. Earlier this year, he was a witness at a U.S. House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Government Surveillance hearing on “The Right to Self Defense” and he told members of the committee a whopper of a lie.
“During [the Office of Gun Violence Prevention’s] 16-month tenure, we supported efforts across all levels of government that resulted in real and meaningful improvements for public safety,” Jackson asserted.
One of those so-called “results,” Jackson suggested, was that “The rule clarifying who is considered “engaged in the business” of dealing firearms helped to address the single largest source of guns involved in gun trafficking investigations by cracking down on the 20,000 unlicensed gun sellers who were not running background checks as required by law.”
The entire premise of Jackson’s suggestion is a lie. The Biden-era ‘Engaged in the Business’ Final Rule – since struck down – unlawfully redefined by edict that individuals privately transferring even a single firearm were to be considered as engaged in the business of selling firearms, requiring them to obtain a federal firearms license (FFL). The Biden-era rule was a transparent and unlawful attempt to impose “Universal Background Checks” that has been rejected by Congress because it requires national gun registration.
But it was a separate Biden-Harris administration rule also rebuts Jackson’s ridiculous claim. Under the Biden administration’s Zero Tolerance policy, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) was directed to aggressively target licensed FFLs for minor clerical and bookkeeping errors that were previously corrected to ensure compliance. That meant a single minor error could lead to license revocation or costly and timely consequences for the business, who often chose to give up their license rather than fight. Earlier this year, ATF officially put an end to the Biden-era “zero tolerance” policy and essentially restored Administrative Action Policy that existed prior to the Biden Administration. This new policy prioritizes firearm traceability and public safety, while expressly de-emphasizing technical or non-material clerical mistakes that do not pose a public safety risk.
In other words, the previous policy – the one Jackson referenced as targeting “rogue” firearm retailers – did not result in a higher number of license revocations – certainly not 20,000 new ones, but a different Biden-era policy did penalize good faith licensees for minor infractions.
To put a bookend on Jackson’s lie, ATF’s own data reveals the number of Type 01 firearm dealers (retailer) licenses over the past five years has gone down by about 7,000 (52,900 in 2021 to 46,100 in 2025). Among all types of FFLs for all licensees, the number went from 134,000 in 2021 to 127,400 in 2025.
Jackson’s claim that his Office of Gun Violence Prevention brought in 20,000 “rogue” gun dealers as proof that the programs helped to “reduce gun violence” is a lie. It was the Biden administration’s anti gun, anti-industry actions that have driven more FFLs out of business than at any other time in history.
An Unserious Solution
The 2023 CJAF report goes on to endorse a departure from traditional crime control methods and instead recommends an investment in community-led policy interventions, including “violence interrupters.”
“Instead of waiting until gun violence happens and deploying the police,” the report asserts, “we can send in teams of culturally-competent community workers to intervene and prevent the violence from occurring.”
But in rebuttal testimony, Gregg Pemberton, Chairman of the D.C. Police Union, said, “There’s almost no evidence of any efficacy of these violence interrupters. As a matter of fact, one of our city council members has been indicted for accepting bribes from a violence interruption organization, and I can name at least a half a dozen suspects who have been arrested for murder, gun charges, drug charges, other violence charges who have been paid by violence interruption organizations.”
Once again, Jackson’s organization puts criminals ahead of law enforcement and keeping citizens safe.
Lies, Disinformation and Untruths
Jackson’s own remarks weren’t limited to disinformation regarding his organization’s positions and statements, though. He himself offered flat out falsehoods about who can and cannot legally obtain a firearm for lawful purposes.
Responding to Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s (D-Minn.) comments about the need for a new so-called “assault weapon” ban and raising the minimum age to purchase long guns from federally licensed firearm retailers from 18 to 21, Jackson’s response was shocking.
“Yeah, I think that’s a really important step to make sure we keep guns out of the hands of our youth. One of the witnesses earlier showed a picture of young men with firearms in Tennessee, and there’s no minimum age to purchase there,” he bizarrely asserted.
Jackson didn’t misspeak. In a separate exchange with Committee Ranking Member Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Jackson again claimed, as fact, that, “there’s no background check” in “places like Tennessee.”
Tennessee firearm retailers – and firearm retailers everywhere else, for that matter – are required by law to process a background check – including for the purchase of shotguns and rifles. In the Volunteer State, the Tennessee Instant Check System (TICS) is utilized to verify that the purchaser is not a prohibited individual and thus barred from purchasing or possessing a firearm.
The fact that this individual was a high-ranking official in The White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention under former President Biden tells you all you need to know about how serious that office was about reducing criminal firearm violence while at the same time restricting Constitutional rights.
It’s for these very reasons that NSSF was so adamant and urgent in its request to the new Trump administration earlier this year to close up the executive branch so-called “gun violence prevention” office. Nowhere else within the U.S. Government are taxpayers forced to fund efforts to denigrate their rights protected by the law.
Thankfully President Trump closed former President Biden’s gun control office. Jackson’s testimony only reinforced that decision was the right one.
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