Posted on 04/09/2021 2:50:51 PM PDT by NoLibZone
President Joe Biden's nominee to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) may have falsely claimed that cult members at Waco shot down helicopters.
David Chipman has been slated to lead the agency as the Biden administration looks at ways to implement more restrictions on access to firearms. Chipman was an ATF agent for 25 years and is currently a senior policy advisor at Giffords, a lobby group seeking stricter gun laws led by former representative Gabriel Giffords.
During a Reddit "Ask Me Anything (AMA)" last year, a user identifying himself as Chipman made the claim about members of the Branch Davidians at the deadly siege in Waco, Texas in 1993. The post about the topic re-emerged on Thursday on social media.
"I am David Chipman. I spent 25 years as a special agent for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF)," the user wrote in his introductory Reddit post.
"I stopped the illegal flow of guns from Virginia to New York, was on the ATF SWAT team, and served as Special Agent in Charge of ATF's Firearms Programs. Now I work with former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords to save lives from gun violence."
As proof of his identity, the AMA began with a photo clearly showing Chipman holding a handwritten sign saying "This is @David_Chipman." The AMA is now closed but it received more than a thousand comments.
In one post, he discussed the use of .50 caliber Barrett rifles. The Waco siege was a standoff between federal authorities—originally the ATF and later the FBI—and the Branch Davidians led by David Koresh.
"At Waco, cult members used two .50 caliber Barretts to shoot down two Texas Air National Guard helicopters," the user wrote in the 2020 AMA.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
These are the kind of people in charge of this nation.
Rambo shot down a helicopter with a bow and arrow. I saw it with my own eyes!
Remember Waco
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Are we in lockdown Monday to safeguard against mass casualty events?
Nobody remembered Waco. 19th passed without an MCE. Mass Casualty Event
No homicidal lunatics left in this country. Except for the ones that don’t own calendars
Maybe for the 30th in 2 years.
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