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I keep waiting for the allegedly pro-gun Republicans to change how we're treated by our own government......as always, I will dutifully pull the lever for "R" next Tuesday because my congresscritter said "things will really change this time"

https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/4...es-should-be-regulated-like-machine-guns

10/29/18

David Chipman, a retired Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) agent, on Monday said AR-15 rifles should be regulated like machine guns.

"What I support is treating them just like machine guns," Chipman, who is now a senior policy adviser at Giffords: Courage to Fight Gun Violence, told Hill.TV's Buck Sexton and Krystal Ball on "Rising."

"To me, if you want to have a weapon of war, the same gun that was issued to me as a member of [the] ATF SWAT team, it makes sense that you would have to pass a background check, the gun would have to be in your name, and there would be a picture and fingerprints on file," he continued.

"To me, I don't mind doing it if I want to buy a gun. These policies just protect the criminal. Like, I don't think you should be able to anonymously purchase 20 AR-15s at one time, and the government shouldn't know," he said. "I don't think it's unreasonable at all that you have to pass a background check to own a weapon of war."

The AR-15 is not currently classified as an assault weapon, otherwise known as a machine gun.

The National Firearms Act put strict guidelines in place for machine gun manufacturers and require that owners register their weapons.

In order to purchase and own a machine gun, owners must go through background checks and allow the federal government to conduct searches.

The suspect in last week's Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, which left 11 people dead, was armed with various guns including an AR-15 style rifle.

Gun control advocates have repeatedly called for regulations on the weapons, which have been involved in various mass shootings including the Parkland, Fla., shooting in February, the Las Vegas country music concert shooting last year, and the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2012.

First lesson I learnt about government employees, they have a mile wide control streak that only excludes them and theirs.

" To me, if you want to have a weapon of war, the same gun that was issued to me as a member of [the] ATF SWAT team"

Really??????? Same weapon???????

Balderdash!!!

JSTUART,

SPOT ON.

yours, tex

Stupid phugk. Probably used to work at DOJ and FBI, too.

Horsesheidt.

Working for Giffords just means he’s a D first and foremost.

I went back and highlighted that for emphasis.

Typical government control freak.

Giffords: Courage to Fight Gun Violence

What would anyone working there say?
Hell If they didn't think that, they wouldn't be there.

" ... Absolute Power ... Corrupts Absolutely ... "

I am of the firm opinion that any who desires a position of power should automatically be excluded from such.

In fact he's being paid to say that.

Yeah, Giffords didn't hire him to be Pro Gun.

Good thing it's not up to him. MAGA

There are a few million Americans who think BATFE agents should be treated like thugs and tyrants. How does that make him feel?

Exactly. He was profiled by the powers-that-be, just like other ATF agents and hired based on his globalist sentiments, to begin with-including a propensity towards gun control. After spending years as a hired government gun thug, he retired on our dime and now is probably raking in another fat salary so they can trot him out to pronounce how the subjects should be disarmed. Sounds like he'd have made a good British officer under King George.

Ironically, he has it backwards.

Machine guns should be regulated like ARs.

The British wanted to outlaw guns in the 1930's and it was a great idea,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, until the Third Reich came to play, then it was "Hello, USA can you pleeeeze send us some guns? pleeeeeze

BATF agents are like most cops......you're guilty until proven innocent. Most of the ones I've deal with are obviously libs.