The House Oversight Committee, led by Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.), has issued subpoenas to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) and the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention as part of an investigation into potential collusion between the Biden administration and gun control groups. The inquiry is centered around the pending litigation City of Chicago v. Glock, with allegations that the White House coordinated with anti-Second Amendment plaintiffs.
Chairman Comer expressed serious concerns about a private meeting held on Dec. 20, 2023, between the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention and Glock representatives. According to Comer, the administration pressured Glock to modify its pistol designs.
“This raises serious concerns about whether you or your staff abused the authority of your office and committed ethical violations by colluding with outside parties to initiate a lawsuit against a politically disfavored private entity,” Comer stated in a letter to White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention Director Stefanie Feldman.
The subpoenas demand all communications between the White House office, ATF and gun control organizations, including Everytown for Gun Safety, related to issues like “auto sear” devices and the ongoing litigation involving Glock. The Committee also seeks records of communications between White House staff and Everytown’s president, John Feinblatt, as well as private messaging logs involving Deputy Director Rob Wilcox.
This move comes after the administration failed to respond to initial document requests made in June. The Committee is investigating whether these communications were improperly used to share information with the plaintiffs in the Chicago lawsuit, which accuses Glock of responsibility for criminal misuse of its firearms when modified with illegal “switches.”
In response, the NSSF, the trade association for the firearms industry, praised the subpoenas, echoing the concerns raised by the Committee. NSSF Senior Vice President and General Counsel Lawrence G. Keane accused the White House of engaging in “lawfare” against the gun industry, claiming the Office of Gun Violence Prevention is working to deprive Americans of their Second Amendment rights.
“It appears this office is a taxpayer-funded effort to do the bidding of radical, special interest groups to weaponize the courts through ‘lawfare’ and advance an agenda to deprive Americans of their Second Amendment rights, guaranteed by the Constitution,” Keane said. He also urged the White House to comply with the subpoenas and end its alleged collaboration with gun control groups like Everytown.
The House Oversight Committee previously noted that Everytown President John Feinblatt had insider knowledge of the Glock meeting, as evidenced by a post on X in which Feinblatt described discussions between federal officials and Glock about modifying their pistols.
White House Deputy Counsel Rachel Cotton, in a response to Comer’s earlier inquiries, accused him of acting on behalf of the gun lobby and dismissed the Committee’s investigation as an effort to protect Glock. Cotton emphasized the administration’s goal of reducing gun violence by addressing illegal firearm modifications, such as “auto sears” that convert handguns into machineguns.
However, the NSSF counters that these illegal devices are not manufactured by Glock or any other firearm company but are illegally imported or homemade. Keane criticized Cotton’s response as misleading and unhelpful, calling it an attempt to deflect from the real issue: the alleged collusion between the White House and gun control advocates.
As the investigation unfolds, both the White House and ATF are expected to provide the requested documents and communications, which could shed more light on the extent of the administration’s involvement in the Chicago litigation.
In a press release from the House Oversight Committee, the committee specifically demands:
The subpoena requires the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention to produce the following documents and communications that are in its possession, custody, or control, from September 22, 2023, to the present, in unredacted form:
- All documents and communications between any individual at the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives; Everytown for Gun Safety; or Everytown Law, related to “auto sear(s)”, “Glock switches”, “machinegun conversion device (“MCD”), and “Chicago litigation”; and
- All documents and communications between Deputy Director of the White House Office for Gun Violence Prevention Rob Wilcox and Everytown for Gun Safety President John Feinblatt.
The subpoena requires the ATF to produce the following documents and communications that are in its possession, custody, or control, from September 22, 2023, to the present, in unredacted form:
- All text, SMS, iMessage, or any other messaging communications to include messages transmitted via encrypted communication apps including but not limited to Signal or WhatsApp between certain phone numbers and any and all cellular devices associated with White House Office for Gun Violence Prevention Deputy Director Rob Wilcox, and/or any other officials within that office, and
- A printout of the log of all telephone calls between certain phone numbers and any cellular device associated with White House Office for Gun Violence Prevention Deputy and/or any other officials within that office.
Read the subpoena cover letter to White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention Director Stefanie Feldman here.
Read the subpoena cover letter to Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives Director Steven Dettelbach here.
Okay. So to them the reality is “we’re trying to make people safe so the end justifies the means” and “those nutty extremists are trying to punish us for making you safe!!”
This is why there is no reasoning with these people. Even when they’re wrong they’re right and you’re a bad person for noticing when they’re wrong.
Helicopter rides are really the only solution. Lots and lots and lots of helicopter rides.
Nothing alleged about it. Gun Control is alive and well in America while the History of Gun Control Confirms it should be dead and buried like its sidekick Slavery.
CNN Sends Kamala Into A Tailspin… “No One Has EVER Won With Numbers This Bad”.
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UPDATE: Pushing Aid To Hurricane Victims Through The FEMA Blockades.
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Kamala Harris Says She Owns a GLOCK…That Raises Some Questions.
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in part quote:
“Kamala Harris says she’s owned her GLOCK for years. At first we wondered if it’s a model that’s on California’s handgun roster. Then we remembered that no GLOCKs were approved for the California roster because they don’t have the mandated magazine disconnect or a loaded chamber indicator. That means they were deemed dangerous under California’s Unsafe Hangun Act. That’s right, Kamala Harris owns a gun that’s considered unsafe in her home state.
Gen3 and earlier GLOCKs were grandfathered in as they were sold before the law was passed, so they’re available to mere citizens, but not the more recent models. Besides, whatever GLOCK she may own, Harris never had to worry about complying with annoying details like California’s ever-widening web of gun control laws. She was part of a special class.
As an elected ‘law enforcement officer’ — Harris was San Francisco’s District Attorney, then California’s Attorney General — she was carved out of the restrictions that average Golden Staters have had to live under for decades. She could buy and own any damned gun she wanted while everyday Californians were limited to only those handguns the state, in its infinite wisdom, deemed “safe.”
Kamaltoe is “special” dontcha know? The Toe is above all those ordinary plebeians. She whined Ron DeSantis wouldn’t talk to her yet he said he talked to the actual president Bidumb. And Tampon Tim is even more “special”🙄
The arrogance of the government has no end. The FBI thinks it’s entitled to ask a company like Apple to just rewrite its operating system from scratch to make it easier for the feds to snoop around in your phone. Chicago thinks it’s perfectly reasonable to expect Glock to can a design that’s been proven reliable and safe, accepted around the world and just start over from a blank sheet of paper and redesign their products. (But it’s for the children!)
Call me cynical, but I don’t believe that the subpoena will have the least little impact or result. Unless the MSM covers this, and it will probably ignore it, the public, outside the POTG, will never learn of this. The White House will drag its feet until this issue is forgotten or no longer has relevance as the result of the election.