Dem senator spent whopping $360k in 9 months on private security despite history of gun control activism
FIRST ON FOX: Sen. Raphael Warnock's, D-Ga., re-election campaign has spent an eye-popping amount of cash on private security over 9 months in 2025 despite a history of supporting stricter...
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FIRST ON FOX: Sen. Raphael Warnock's, D-Ga., re-election campaign has spent an eye-popping amount of cash on private security over 9 months in 2025 despite a history of supporting stricter gun control measures. Between January and September of this year, Warnock spent approximately $360,000 on security services from Executive Protection Agencies, LLC, an Atlanta-based security firm that includes both armed and unarmed options. Warnock's office did not clarify what type of service he was paying the firm to provide. However, the security firm's website says it uses its armed services to provide protection for "political figures." A Fox News Digital review found that Warnock's campaign has spent over $2.7 million on private security dating back to Dec. 2020. Warnock has regularly pushed gun control in Congress, including co-sponsoring legislation to ban assault weapons and require universal background checks, voting for federal red flag laws, supporting stricter penalties for those who purchase firearms from sellers not legally allowed to do so, and stricter licensing requirements for sellers, among other initiatives. GEORGIA JUDGE DECLARES CITY ORDINANCE BANNING GUNS IN UNLOCKED CARS AS ‘UNENFORCEABLE’ Following a 2021 mass shooting in Atlanta that killed 8 people across a handful of massage parlors in the city, Warnock criticized Republicans in his state's legislature for a "distortion of values," citing the GOP-controlled legislature's decision to prioritize election integrity measures, which Warnock suggested make it harder for people to vote. "This shooter was able to kill all of these folks the same day he purchased a firearm, but right now what is our legislature doing? They’re busy under the golden dome here in Georgia trying to prevent people from voting the same day they register," Warnock said on "Meet the Press" in 2021. "I think that suggests a distortion in values, when you can buy a gun and create this much carnage and violence on the same day but if yo…