Joe Biden has announced his “shot heard round the world” against the Second Amendment. Stating “No Constitutional Amendment is set in stone,” Joe Biden has unleashed the dogs against gun-owners across the country, introducing new background checks, planned bans on AR pistols, gun kits, and numerous other unenforceable mandates designed to strangle the right to bear arms. And before you think this is all show: he’s appointed the case agent from the Waco siege in the 1990’s to lead the charge, putting into practice the agenda rehearsed for when the Clintons held the Oval Office. That is, the first time they held the Oval Office.
The White House announced Wednesday that President Biden will nominate longtime Giffords policy advisor and former ATF agent David Chipman to lead the nation’s gun regulatory agency.
Chipman, whose bio submitted to Congress in relation to his role in testifying in support of recent gun control measures, details that he has been with Giffords since 2016, having come to that anti-gun group after previously working for Bloomberg-founded Mayors Against Illegal Guns. Prior to that, he was with the ATF from 1988 to 2012, including running the agency’s Asset Forfeiture Program, leading the Detroit Field Division, and serving as “Case agent in [the] Branch Davidian trial” while working in the Waco, Texas, field office…
Since 2012, Chipman has been front and center stumping for the campaign to ban large selections of popular semi-auto firearms and keep in place antiquated controls on safety equipment such as suppressors. He testified against the Hearing Protection Act in 2017, arguing deregulating suppressors would lead to their increased use by criminals, disregarding the fact that an illegal suppressor can be readily made with household items today.
In 2019, he told the House Judiciary Committee that semi-auto firearms described as “assault weapons” are virtually “identical to those used by the military,” and should be extensively regulated even though over 18 million AR-style rifles are believed to be in circulation.
“[S]imply reinstating the 90s-era ban on assault weapons is not enough,” Chipman told lawmakers. “Instead, we should regulate a broader class of firearms, including assault weapons manufactured before the law’s enactment,” going on to explain that existing guns should fall under the NFA “while banning the future manufacture and sale of these firearms.” Read more…
