Biden’s planned pick for ATF director a fierce advocate for gun control
David Chipman, President Joe Biden’s planned nominee for director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, has a long history at the agency and sports credentials in gun control advocacy sure to excite firearm safety groups.
Chipman, if confirmed, would return to the agency where he worked for 25 years as a special agent.
While at the ATF, he “disrupted firearms trafficking operations in Virginia that were supplying illegal guns to New York City, served as a member of ATF’s version of SWAT, and was named the Special Agent in Charge of ATF’s Firearms Programs,” according to his bio on the website for Giffords. He currently serves as a senior policy adviser at the organization led by former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, who became a gun control advocate after being shot in 2011.
She praised Chipman as “the perfect choice” for director in a statement Wednesday.
After leaving the ATF in 2012, Chipman became a senior adviser at Everytown for Gun Safety, where he was “consulted frequently” by lawmakers considering gun control legislation, according to his Linkedin.
Chipman then served as senior vice president of Public Safety Solutions for almost three years before arriving at Giffords as a senior policy adviser in 2016.
This is the guy the Democrats are going to confirm as ATF Director.
What sort of experience does this guy have?
This is straight out of his resume submitted to Congress.
Case agent for the Branch Davidian trial.
You know, the one where the Government put most of its effort in trying to justify why it burned 76 people, including children, to death in a siege.
That fucking guy.
We are all Branch Davidians now.
When the guy whose primary job was CYA for a federal agency’s immolation of American civilians in Texas is in charge of the agency that will be front and center in taking your guns away, do you really think they would hesitate to burn any or all of us to death to carry out their plans?
— ₩₳Ɽ ₱₳₮Ⱨ (@WarPath2pt0) April 8, 2021
We are so fucked.
Welcome to the Alamo.
Only if ya let him get ya first
Guilty
This was not a happy way to start my morning.
I find it bitterly ironic that of Bidenharris’s six ‘actions’, Chipman is arguably the worst. The other five are either boilerplate or can be challenged in court.
But Chipman? That loon did an AMA on Reddit last year and he was about as reality-aligned as someone on ten tabs of LSD.
Slowly, very slowly, gun owners who still vote D may start to see the error of their ways.
He lives somewhere and he can be burned alive too… Just saying..