David Chipman is a Dangerous Gun Grabber Who The Senate Should Reject

 Andrea Widburg at the American Thinker notes that If Biden's Pick To Head the ATF Gets the Nod, We're All In Trouble. Biden has nominated David Chipman, a problematic figure who is a virulently anti-gun former member of the ATF, and now is with the eponymously named Giffords, which despite the name change is still just a gun grabbing organization.

Biden’s nominee to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, David Chipman, is a long-time gun control advocate. Putting him in charge of the ATF is a guaranteed attack on American’s Second Amendment rights. As Wednesday’s Senate hearing showed, the guy is also a crackpot and a liar.

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On Wednesday, in response to Ted Cruz’s questioning, Chipman admitted what those “particularly lethal” firearms are: AR-15s. As Sen. Tom Cotton noted, Chipman defined AR-15s so broadly that it “would basically cover every single modern sporting rifle in America today.” And when it comes to those AR-15s, Chipman wants to ban them all

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The AR-15 is America’s most popular rifle. In 2019, before the world went crazy with COVID and BLM, causing millions of Americans to become first-time gun owners, a good guess was that there were about 18 million AR-15s in America. There are undoubtedly many, many more now.

AR-15s are popular because they are lovely weapons: easy to use and easy to customize. At the end of the day, though, they are still the classic American rifle, and they don’t fire a particularly lethal round. They are almost never used to commit crimes. But Chipman, given power, would seize them.

Chipman’s not only an anti-gun fanatic, he’s also a liar. Perhaps to justify the government’s mass slaughter at Waco in 1993, he’s claimed that Branch Davidian members “used 2.50 caliber Barretts to shoot down two Texas Air National Guard helicopters.” In fact, while the Branch Davidians shot at helicopters, they failed – and there were no Barretts later discovered at the scene. Chipman wasn’t misinformed; he lied, because, as a case agent in the Branch Davidian trial, he knew better.

Look, David Chipman hopes to get the authority to hurt you and me. The American Left has been held at bay because we have the Second Amendment, and a great number of Americans have exercised that right. Otherwise, America would look like Pol Pot's Cambodia. And if Biden and Chipman have their way, it still will.  The Senate must not approve this nominee.