The Firearms Trade Group Trying To Sink Biden's ATF Nominee

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : But gun control advocates said the NSSF's role has surprised them and highlights the trade group's increasing prominence.
48% : But the National Sports Shooting Foundation has rallied vociferous opposition to Chipman, deploying rhetoric that echoes the NRA's regular apocalyptic warnings about a forthcoming collapse of gun rights and threatening to derail a key plank of the Biden administration's plans to tamp down on gun crimes.
48% : Chipman is a former ATF agent who has become a gun control advocate and now works for the gun violence prevention group Giffords, where he's pushed for a renewed assault weapons ban and universal background checks.
47% : Gun control advocates believe they can convince at least one Republican to vote in support of Chipman, but only if all 50 Democrats back his nomination.
45% : The coronavirus pandemic has reshaped the country's relationship with guns, with both sales and violent shootings rising -- though criminologists and law enforcement experts agree the two trends are not directly linked.
44% : Gun control advocates have long been optimistic about the nomination of David Chipman to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, in part because the National Rifle Association -- long the leading political warrior for the gun lobby -- is battling bankruptcy and is politically weakened.

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