There are lies, damned lies and gun control lies. The problem with the gun control lies is that those who continue to spout them have no shame even when they’ve been proven wrong.
The latest is Fred Guttenberg. Guttenberg is the father of 14-year-old Jaime who was among those killed in the tragedy at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. He’s become an outspoken gun control activist since his daughter’s murder, working alongside the gun control groups Everytown for Gun Safety, Brady and Giffords.
He weighed in the floundering nomination of President Joe Biden’s nominee, David Chipman, for director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). This, of course, is well within his rights. Taking liberties with the truth, however, is out of bounds.
This is a disgusting lie from the “The Reload” an extremist rag designed to pedal gun lobby lies.
Let me be clear, the lobby does not care about @davidchipman, they are working to stop a permanent director of the ATF. DO NOT ACT ON THE BS. CONFIRM CHIPMAN AND FIX THE ATF. https://t.co/zbj6gU1LCx
— Fred Guttenberg (@fred_guttenberg) July 30, 2021
“This industry doesn’t really care who the name is of the ATF director,” Guttenberg told Politico in an interview. “They want to veto the idea of a permanent ATF director and they’re doing everything they can to do that. If it wasn’t David Chipman, they’d be doing the same thing to whoever else it was.”
That’s just not true.
The Facts
A Senate-confirmed ATF director is in the firearm industry’s interest and NSSF has openly supported several nominees in the past, including Chuck Canterbury, B. Todd Jones, who was nominated by President Barack Obama and confirmed, and Michael Sullivan, who was nominated by President George W. Bush.
The firearm industry wants a permanent director. The industry needs it, so does ATF. There are too many functions, from law enforcement to inspections to drafting regulations that hinge upon experienced, steady, nonpartisan and mission-focused leadership. The problem is that Chipman is none of that.
That’s what Guttenberg, the gun control lobby and gun control senators can’t accept. NSSF has detailed the reasons before, but for clarity’s sake, here are the reasons Chipman’s unqualified for the job.
Chipman is a gun control idealogue. He’s a paid lobbyist for a gun control group who embraces radical ideas including banning modern sporting rifles (MSRs), standard capacity magazines and if that can’t be achieved, twisting the National Firearms Act to force registration and levy taxes on those who own the 20 million-plus that are in circulation today.
Chipman lied about the events in Waco, Texas. He claimed that .50-caliber rifles were used to down helicopters. Like Guttenberg, he’s got a problem with the truth. It never happened and he was forced to recant the claim.
He’s denigrating of Americans who choose to exercise their Second Amendment rights. He compared first-time gun buyers in 2020 to “Tiger King” and zombie-apocalypse preppers. He told them to, “Secure that gun, locked and unloaded and hide it behind the cans of tuna and beef jerky that you have stored in a cabinet and only bring that out if the zombies start to appear.”
That’s hardly respecting the rights of the citizens he would swear an oath to protect if he was again given a badge.
The Truth
The truth is that the firearm industry wants a Senate-confirmed ATF director. What the firearm industry doesn’t want is a gun control mouthpiece who would run roughshod over the Second Amendment and use the bureau to run the industry out of business. That’s what President Biden vowed. He called the firearm industry “the enemy.”
It’s not just NSSF saying Chipman is the wrong guy for the job. It’s also Michael Sullivan, former Acting Director of the ATF. He said Chipman would be too focused on the politics of gun control and not the ATF’s mission of regulating firearms and enforcing laws.
It’s also what several former ATF agents want, all with over 25 years of service, who wrote to the Senate to warn them Chipman doesn’t have the required executive experience and his personal anti-gun agenda would interfere with his duties.
It’s also the ATF agents who allege Chipman made racist remarks while he was stationed at the Detroit field office. Chipman and even Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) are glossing over complaints in his personnel file. Yet, neither Chipman, nor The White House, will produce the records to put the matter to rest.
The ATF deserves a confirmed director. The firearm industry wants that. Chipman, and gun control’s constant lies to drive their agenda, are what’s unacceptable.
Larry Keane is SVP for Government and Public Affairs, Assistant Secretary and General Counsel of the National Shooting Sports Foundation.
As a member of the 2A community, the only thing I’ll be content with is a total dissolution of the ATF. There is NOTHING American about that agency whatsoever. May those jackbooted women/children/puppy murdering sacks of crap rot in hell.
It’s called gaslighting. It is a favorite tactic of the gun-control zealots, and the Left in general.
I wonder what would be said if Trump were trying to head the ATF.
“This industry doesn’t really care who the name is of the ATF director,” Guttenberg told Politico in an interview. “They want to veto the idea of a permanent ATF director and they’re doing everything they can to do that. If it wasn’t David Chipman, they’d be doing the same thing to whoever else it was.”
Okay, if names don’t matter, nominate Larry Keane as Director of the BATFE.
Larry Keane recently stated that the expansion of NICS was a “Real Achievement”. You know…that system of unconstitutional background checks in which you’re assumed by default to be a potential criminal and must prove your innocence before you can exercise your enumerated right?
Nope. No thanks. Not Keane.
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/frustrated-giffords-ratchets-up-the-rhetoric-as-chipman-nomination-stalls-gun-control-bills-languish/
I missed that one Haz. Thank you for sharing.
Let’s nominate possum. They’ll wish they never pissed him off!
Chips a reformed alcoholic too, dunno, some of them guys are cool and some of thems got one big hate going on.
Adding things up ,to me, you got theBiden(whoever) and its thing going on, and Chip (with baggage) as the muscle.
I see mini Waco’s in the forecast.
At this point in history and with a lot of people aquiring firegunms, Chipman or anyone threatening disarmament, would not be my choice its dumb . ,, ,unless
“I see mini Waco’s in the forecast”
“mini”?
that’s some rousing commentary right there. truly inspirational. certain to catalyze enlightening debate.
one time a sherries berries commercial came on, and when the little hand ventured forth to pick the giant, juicy ripe fruit i commented to no one in particular, “they use a midgets hand to make the strawberrry look larger.”
the guy next to me, a retired firefighter stood up and yelled, “i can’t help it if my hands are small.” awkward.
so, you take the diminutive reference personally? mmm… insect porn.
tsbhoa.p.jr –
what you believe to be insightful appears to be nothing more than gibberish. Don’t drink and post… better yet just don’t post
If someone loses a loved one on their way to school in a car pileup it does not qualify them as a spokesperson for NASCAR.
Based on what Fred is running around saying shows he is filled with lies and more lies and with those lies he only adds insult to injury. Fred needs to visit the Holocaust Museum in Dallas TX to see just a bit of what history confirms rides along with Gun Control no matter where it’s been or where it goes.
So which way is it going to be Fred? It’s either a fight for Gun Control or It Is A Fight For Freedom. There is no gray area, Fred.
1) The Second Amendment is one thing.
2) The criminal misuse of firearms, etc. is another thing.
3) History confirms Gun Control in any shape or form is a racist and nazi based Thing.
“If someone loses a loved one on their way to school in a car pileup it does not qualify them as a spokesperson for NASCAR”
well it might if NASCAR was being conducted on city streets during business hours.
Debbie’s logic is perfectly sound: losing a loved one to an incident one can tie into a policy issue has zero correlation with the intelligence, education, experience, or wisdom required of an expert in that area of policy.
On the contrary, activists (particularly gun-control activists) driven by loss have shown themselves far more likely than the average voter to be fanatical, emotion-driven ideologues who hate facts and reason, and therefore far less likely to have logical, factually supported, or practically workable solutions to any problem.
To Fred Guttenberg, he thinks justice and vengeance are the same thing. He wants all gun owners punished in his self-righteous vengeance with like-minded Chipman being his instrument.
The most recent news is Chipman was on Chinese state-sponsored TV taking a political stance; and he lied about that.
All this “pesky 1st amendment” (as he stated) publicity getting in the way of control
“here are the reasons Chipman’s unqualified for the job
Chipman is a gun control idealogue.
Chipman lied about the events in Waco, Texas.
He’s denigrating of Americans who choose to exercise their Second Amendment rights.”
he’s fully qualified for the job they have in mind.
“those who continue to spout them have no shame even when they’ve been proven wrong”
why would they? they’re after power and they mean it. they themselves are the truth, the universe was created for them – the shame belongs to anything that impedes them in any way.
First of all, Hindenburg, it’s “peddle,” not “pedal.” Your case is severely diminished when you confuse a car with a salesman.
Confound old eyes…when I first read the Tweet, I read it as “…working to stop a permanent DICTATOR of the ATF”…not director. New glasses in my future I guess…
“Confound old eyes”
it’s not just the eyes, it’s the mind too. when I first saw ChoseDeath’s moniker I thought it was “CheeseBreath”.
It isn’t that the Gun Control Lobby doesn’t want to hear the truth about David Chipman. They just don’t want us to hear it.
They know about Chipman’s past. It’s called “leverage”.
Can somebody remind me of the difference between NSSF approved Canterbury and disapproved Chipman? They both support “assault weapons” bans, magazine limits, and think Sotomayor is great on 2A issues.
“The firearm industry wants a permanent director. The industry needs it, so does ATF”
NO – The ATF needs to GO AWAY.
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