<p>President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced he was tapping gun control activist David Chipman to serve Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF). Even though Chipman&#8217;s past <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bidens-pick-for-atf-director-has-a-questionable-past-that-deserves-a-second-look">has been called into question</a>, particularly over his role in the Waco, Texas, massacre and his calls to disarm law-abiding Americans, things are getting even thornier.</p>
<p>A look into the United States&#8217; Senate Lobbying Disclosure <a href="https://lda.senate.gov/filings/public/filing/search/?registrant=&amp;registrant_country=&amp;registrant_ppb_country=&amp;client=&amp;client_state=&amp;client_country=&amp;client_ppb_country=&amp;lobbyist=chipman&amp;lobbyist_covered_position=&amp;lobbyist_conviction_disclosure=&amp;lobbyist_conviction_date_range_from=&amp;lobbyist_conviction_date_range_to=&amp;report_period=&amp;report_year=&amp;report_dt_posted_from=&amp;report_dt_posted_to=&amp;report_amount_reported_min=&amp;report_amount_reported_max=&amp;report_issue_area_description=&amp;affiliated_organization=&amp;affiliated_organization_country=&amp;foreign_entity=&amp;foreign_entity_country=&amp;foreign_entity_ppb_country=&amp;foreign_entity_ownership_percentage_min=&amp;foreign_entity_ownership_percentage_max=&amp;search=search">registration shows</a> Chipman served as a lobbyist for Giffords, former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords&#8217; gun control group. As <a href="https://lda.senate.gov/filings/public/filing/dd55dc88-b6fa-4543-b17a-3f5c1c999a60/print/">recently</a> as a last June, Chipman was lobbying on behalf of anti-Second Amendment legislation.</p>

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