Joe Biden’s anti-Second Amendment nominee to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) has a background ripe with controversy.
Currently serving as a senior policy advisor at former representative Gabriel Giffords’ anti-gun lobbying group “Giffords,” David Chipman used to carry a semi-automatic rifle while raking in a taxpayer-funded paycheck.
The Biden nominee’s government career places him on location or being directly involved in some of America’s most infamous events over the last few decades.
Daily Mail reports that Chipman was “at the Ruby Ridge standoff,” in 1992 near Naples, Idaho.Daily
The very next year, Chipman was directly involved in overseeing the Waco Siege.
According to his own resume, Chipman was the “Case agent in the Branch Davidian Trial.”
Breitbart refers to the Waco standoff as “a big, sexy, made-for-TV siege — a PR move to rebuild reputations after the government’s breathtaking debacle at Ruby Ridge.”
Discussing his involvement in the government-sanctioned slaughter, Chipman lied to Reddit users during an AMA and claimed Branch Davidian members shot down two Texas Air National Guard helicopters using .50 caliber rifles.
In reality, the choppers were fired upon but were never “shot down.”
Both the Ruby Ridge and Waco killings were sparked by the overzealous ATF infringing upon the Second Amendment rights of U.S. citizens, so it’s understandable that people would be cautious of hiring Chipman to run the entire agency.
Currently serving as a senior policy advisor at former representative Gabriel Giffords’ anti-gun lobbying group “Giffords,” David Chipman used to carry a semi-automatic rifle while raking in a taxpayer-funded paycheck.
The Biden nominee’s government career places him on location or being directly involved in some of America’s most infamous events over the last few decades.
Daily Mail reports that Chipman was “at the Ruby Ridge standoff,” in 1992 near Naples, Idaho.Daily
The very next year, Chipman was directly involved in overseeing the Waco Siege.
According to his own resume, Chipman was the “Case agent in the Branch Davidian Trial.”
Breitbart refers to the Waco standoff as “a big, sexy, made-for-TV siege — a PR move to rebuild reputations after the government’s breathtaking debacle at Ruby Ridge.”
Discussing his involvement in the government-sanctioned slaughter, Chipman lied to Reddit users during an AMA and claimed Branch Davidian members shot down two Texas Air National Guard helicopters using .50 caliber rifles.
In reality, the choppers were fired upon but were never “shot down.”
Both the Ruby Ridge and Waco killings were sparked by the overzealous ATF infringing upon the Second Amendment rights of U.S. citizens, so it’s understandable that people would be cautious of hiring Chipman to run the entire agency.
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