President Biden Entrusts Gun Rights to Spiteful Gun Prohibitionist

Tell Your Senator to oppose the nomination of registered gun control lobbyist David Chipman as Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives

Tell Congress to Reject David Chipman for ATF Director

Dear John,

On April 8th, President Biden announced the nomination of David Chipman to lead the “AFT”—an obvious blunder given that he was talking about the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (or ATF).

David Chipman poses a grave threat to the Second Amendment if given the reigns at ATF—an agency already predisposed to infringe on your right to keep and bear arms.

GOA needs you to contact your Senators—especially weak Republicans and so-called moderate Democrats—to make sure they know ALL the scandals surrounding this unconscionable nominee.

The Senate is expected to start hearings on the Chipman nomination as early as Wednesday, May 26.

So read up, get the facts, and call your Senate office to give them the full scoop!

For starters, David Chipman began his career regulating gun rights with the ATF. He left ATF to lobby for Everytown for Gun Safety and later the Giffords Law Center.  

United States Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA) Reports indicate that David Chipman made hundreds of thousands of dollars a year from 2017 to 2020 lobbying against the constitutionally-protected right to keep and bear arms. He also made over a million dollars lobbying for gun control in just six months between 2012 and 2013. (Click here to read more.)

The Spiteful Gun Prohibitionist

David Chipman at Waco

As noted earlier, Chipman began his career by spending 25 years enforcing gun control at the ATF. Chipman’s first postings at the Washington and Houston ATF Field Divisions led to his involvement in the 51-day federal siege on Mount Carmel, a compound and church belonging to the religious sect Branch-Davidians.

After the compound burned down ending the ATF-FBI siege, investigators uncovered 76 bodies, 25 of which were children. The Daily Mail uncovered a photograph (top) of David Chipman “posing in the aftermath of the Waco siege.”

David Chipman has also unapologetically made false claims about the Waco Siege, claiming incorrectly that “cult members,” a derogatory term for the religious sect Branch-Davidians, “used 2 .50 caliber Barretts to shoot down two Texas Air National Guard helicopters”—which verifiably did not happen. 

Special Agent in Charge Chipman later left his career in law enforcement to make millions of dollars lobbying against the constitutional rights of the American people. At Everytown for Gun Safety and Giffords Law Center, he lobbied in favor of radical anti-gun legislation that would infringe upon the free exercise of the Second Amendment as we know it.

For all of the above reasons and more, President Biden’s ATF Director Nominee David Chipman is unfit to hold public office.  

So please, contact your Senator and let them know that Gun Owners of America will score all votes in favor of David Chipman as anti-gun votes.

Next EmPowered 2A Meeting is this Monday!

Attention to all the female GOA members.

Here’s your chance to finally ask an expert on all things related to firearms—that is, what is a good first gun to get, which caliber of firearm should I start with, etc! 

May’s Empowered 2A E.T.A. Talks event is with Sig Sauer's very own director of training, Hana Bilodeau. She will be taking questions the whole hour. So be sure to come with questions about firearm training, self-defense, and gun ownership.  

Register below to get your link.  

You are invited to a Zoom meeting. 

When: May 24, 2021 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)  

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In liberty, 

Aidan Johnston 
Director of Federal Affairs 

P.S. Please distribute this alert to your pro-gun family and friends and urge them to Take Action. To renew your GOA membership or to join for the first time, please click here.

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