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John has your NRA magazine are included below. served on the NRA Board of Directors for over 25 years during which time he served two terms as NRA 2nd Vice President (2003-2005), two terms as NRA’s 1st Vice President (2005- 2007), and two consecutive terms as NRA’s 59th President (2007-2009). During his time “in the chairs”, John accomplished many important things, but high on that list of accomplishments is the creation of two new NRA committees, the Military and Veterans Affairs Committee and the Disabled Shooting Committee which is primarily focused on our returning disabled veterans. John was planning to retire from the NRA Board this year but decided that now was not the time to do so. John told me that with all that is going on right now, both politically with the attacks on the Second Amendment and the NRA, and the Capt. John C. 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John has received both Delaware’s Defender of Freedom Award and Taurus International’s Defender of Freedom Award. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Biden declares war on gun owners, Second Amendment By: Lee Williams Submitted by: John Sigler https://thegunwriter.substack.com/p/biden-declares-war-on- gun-owners By nominating David Chipman to run the ATF — a gun control activist who's worked for two national gun control groups — Biden has shown nothing but contempt for our constitutional This tells me Chipman has contempt for the First rights. Amendment as well as the Second. These are not the actions of a future public official. These are the actions of someone Choosing gun control activist David Chipman to run the who’s got something to hide. It’s about what I’d expect from a ATF makes about as much sense as picking Howard Stern to longtime gun control activist. oversee the FCC. Despite his attempts to conceal his past, we can get some Chipman currently serves as the senior policy advisor for insight into Chipman’s character and fitness for office through the Giffords gun control group — a position he’s held for five his previous writings and interviews. years. Before joining Gabby et al, he was a policy advisor for He believes ARs should be regulated by the National Everytown for Gun Safety. Quite frankly, I don’t know which Firearms Act, and he called sheriffs who remember their oath group is worse. Both want total civilian disarmament, and both and refuse to enforce unconstitutional gun laws “renegades.” will use any means necessary to get there. Regulating ARs through NFA is laughable. Even if the According to a White House press release sent proposal survived constitutional muster and a slew of civil Wednesday night, the Administration wants even more than suits, ATF doesn’t have the manpower to regulate what an anti-gun toady regulating guns. They’re going after pistol they’ve got now, much less if Chipman added millions of ARs braces, which they want regulated by the National Firearms to their plate. Act, and home-builds too are at risk. The DOJ will be issuing And his “renegade” comment already has sheriffs buzzing. proposals to regulate both in the coming months. They’re not pleased — especially our southern sheriffs — and I honestly don’t know where this massive anti-gun push is they’re not a good group to piss off. coming from. Based on what I’ve seen of him lately, President And, as you’d expect from a gun control activist, Chipman Biden can’t complete a sentence without a teleprompter. is a microstamping proponent. “Intentional firearm Someone else is definitely calling the shots. microstamping offers an important addition to the tools While I expected the President to go after pistol braces available to law enforcement—it’s time to encourage firearm and chase ghosts, the Chipman nomination is a new low for manufacturers to include this life-saving technology in their someone who campaigned on unity and inclusion. It was a products,” he wrote in a 2019 article for Police Chief Magazine. slap in the face to everyone who owns a firearm or believes in In my humble opinion, anyone who believes in that flawed liberty. It’s an insult — a poke in the eye with a chainsaw anti-gun tech — which can be erased in about five seconds bayonet. with a simple nail file — is somewhat suspect. It says to me What concerns me about the President’s pick is that the President’s pick is a theoretical crime fighter, not a real Chipman has taken steps to conceal his past and his opinions. one. His Twitter account is now private. I requested access to no Chipman has mentioned in several interviews that he’s a avail. “gun owner,” as if that lends him some credibility. I take exception to that too. The mere fact he owns a pistol or a shotgun cannot excuse a lifetime of gun control activism. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED COPYRIGHT 2021 VOLUME 37, NUMBER 3, May-June 2021 To be clear, Chipman is the adversary of everyone who and made to feel like criminals. Meanwhile, the government respects the Constitution, the Second Amendment and our took zero responsibility. God-given right of self-defense. The thing that troubles me most is that police didn’t have Given his history, he should not be given oversight of the the integrity to say right from the outset, “we stuffed up, this ATF’s vast resources and regulatory authority. It’s clear guy should never have got a license." Sporting Shooters Chipman supports confiscation and total civilian disarmament, Association president Neville Dodd said. and now President Biden wants to give him the tools he needs As a result, 241,900 New Zealanders who’ve been to accomplish this goal. carefully vetted, unlike Tarrant, alienated, no longer support Now is the time to contact your Senators, regardless of the police and that to me is the biggest tragedy of all because their party affiliation, and tell them to oppose Chipman’s we had a very good rapport with police, and that’s gone. nomination. I honestly don’t think there could be any Supporters of New Zealand’s ban are doubling down.