Urge Your Senators to Oppose Anti-Gun Nominee for ATF Director

WASHINGTON, DC — On Thursday, June 24^th, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 10-10, along party lines, to advance the nomination of President Biden’s choice of anti-gun activist David Chipman to be the Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF).  The full Senate will now vote soon whether to confirm Chipman. The ASA urges all supporters of suppressor rights, and anyone who values hearing safety, to contact your Senators immediately and urge them to oppose this nomination.

Simply put, we cannot allow David Chipman and his gun and suppressor-banning cronies to run the ATF.  Chipman, who currently works as a lobbyist for the anti-gun Giffords group, has a repeated history of making false statements regarding the safety and efficacy of firearm suppressors.  In September of 2017, he testified against the SHARE Act and falsely claimed that suppressors “mask the sound of a gun, changing the sound into one not easily recognized as gunfire,” and that therefore they could make “assassination-style murders become easier.”  These false claims were so outlandish that even the Washington Post’s fact-checker gave them 3 Pinocchios.