Sounds okay to me.
Sorry, no pass. He spent years working for an agency whose main mission in life is to harass gun owners.
If the U.S. government is going to have an agency that concerns itself with firearms, it's main task should be reconditioning used military to sell to the civilian market. Think of it as a massively expanded DCM that returns arms purchased by the American people back to those who paid for them.Everything up to and including crew-served weapons would be on the table. The founders of this country certainly envisioned citizens and organizations to be able to have crew served weapons, or they wouldn't have included Letters of Marque in the Constitution.