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Biden’s ATF Pick Wants To Ban The AR-15

Biden’s ATF Pick Wants To Ban The AR-15

Def-Con News has written about the anti-gun activism of David Chipman, Biden’s pick to head the ATF, and he is an enemy of the the U.S. Constitution, the 2nd Amendment, and freedom. Today he began his Senate confirmation hearing and proved he’s all that and a bag of chips shit. The man who wants to lead ATF said he supports banning all AR-15s and defined assault weapons as basically most guns in private hands.

Ted Cruz got first crack at Chipman:

Is it weird the his name is Chipman and he looks and sounds like a chipmunk?

“Mr. Chipman, a minute ago Senator Whitehouse asked you if any of your lewis on guns are out of step with the majority of the American people. The AR-15 is one of, if not the, most popular rifle in America. It’s not a machine-gun, it’s a rifle. Your public position is that you want to ban AR-15s, is that correct,” asked Cruz.

“With respect to the AR-15, I support a ban as has been presented in a Senate bill and supported by the president,” said Chipman.

His answer was already horrible, so he decided to flush it completely down the crapper by adding this:

“The AR-15 is a gun I was issued on ATF’s SWAT team and it’s a particularly lethal weapon and regulating it as other particularly lethal weapons, I have advocated for,” Chipman said.

How is the AR-15 “particularly” more lethal than any other gun that fires the same round? Chipman didn’t say and he also didn’t clarify how “ban” and “regulate” are the same thing. The AR-15 like all firearms in this country is already regulated. Ted Cruz helped Chipman with his answer:

“You want to ban the most popular rifle in America,” said Cruz.

Next up was Tom Cotton, who tried to get Chipman to define what an “assault weapon” is:

“You have called for an assault weapons ban. I have a simple question for you, what is an assault weapon?” Cotton asked.

“Senator, an assault weapon would be, in the context of what you asked, whatever Congress defines it as,” replied Chipman.

Is that an answer? Cotton didn’t think so.

“You’re asking us to ban assault weapons. We have to write legislation. Can you tell me, what is an assault weapon? How would you define it if you were the head of the ATF? How have you defined it over the last several years in your role as a gun control advocate?” Cotton asked.

Chipman waffled around saying that the ATF once used the term “assault rifle” decades ago to mean, “Any semi-automatic rifle capable of accepting a detachable magazine above the caliber of .22, which includes a .223 which is largely an AR-15 round.”

.223 isn’t above .22 caliber, it is .22 caliber. Is 30-06 above .30 caliber? No, it’s a .30 caliber round.

Cotton then tried to clarify that Chipman believes any semi-automatic rifle that has a detachable magazine above .22 is an assault rifle and he waffled some more.

“Senator, you asked me if ATF had used this term,” said Chipman.

Well no, Cotton did no such thing. He asked how David Chipman would define an “assault weapon” and he kept answering how the ATF once defined an “assault rifle.”

Cotton shifted gears and asked Chipman if you can walk into a gun store and see anything marked as “assault weapons.” Chipman reluctantly agreed that no such term exists to describe semi-automatic firearms. Then, Cotton reminded Chipman where that term comes from:

“I think our exchange here illustrates that there really is no such thing as an ‘assault weapon.’ That is a term that was manufactured by liberal lawyers and pollsters in Washington to try to scare the American people into believing the government should confiscate weapons that are wildly popular for millions of Americans,” said Cotton.

Cotton is right and Chipman is disqualified. This guy wants to head one of the largest law enforcement agencies in the country and he is vehemently opposed to the highest law of the land: the U.S. Constitution.