The White House is planning to withdraw David Chipman’s nomination to run the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives this week amid bipartisan pushback over his gun control advocacy, according to two people with knowledge of the decision.
President Biden nominated Chipman, who worked at ATF for more than two decades before joining the gun control group led by former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), in April.
Gun owners were absolutely opposed to the Chipman nomination from the git-go, not only for Chipman’s gun grabbing proclivities, but also for things like lying about the Branch Davidians shooting down helicopters, wanting to ban the AR-15, and general hostility to both gun owners in specific and conservatives in general.
Gun Owners of America, among many others, strongly opposed the nomination.
The ability to stop Chipman shows that gun owners and Second Amendment advocacy groups in America still have a lot of political power and influence in America, despite the NRA’s self-inflicted wounds.
Tags: AR-15, BATFE, David Chipman, Democrats, Gabrielle Giffords, Guns
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