FOX News reported that Everytown for Gun Safety gave $200,000 to Jay Jones campaign, the same Jay Jones who used text messages to “[reveal] his desire” to shoot a former GOP lawmaker.
Jones is a Democrat candidate for Virginia’s office of Attorney General.
Breitbart News pointed to an October 3 report from the National Review which found that Jones sent text messages in 2022 to Virginia House Delegate Carrie Coyner (R), entertaining a hypothetical situation in which he would shoot former Virginia Speaker of the House of Delegates Todd Gilbert and wishing death on Gilbert’s children.
Everytown for Gun Safety contributed to Jones’ campaign in August 2025.
Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen (R) mocked Everytown’s contribution:
On October 7, 2025, the Free Beacon reported that Everytown had “quietly scrubbed its website of an endorsement of Jay Jones.” Until apparently removing it, Everytown “listed Jones on its ‘Gun Sense Voter’ endorsement page.”
AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio, a member of the NRA and Gun Owners of America, and the director of global marketing for Lone Star Hunts. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal in 2010 and has a Ph.D. in Military History. Follow him on X: @awrhawkins. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com.
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