Greenville Leader

President Joe Biden recently pulled David Chipman's nomination as the next director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) due to bipartisan reservations regarding Chipman's prior gun control activism, according to a report by CBS News.

Although Chipman spent 25 years as an ATF special agent, his position as a senior policy advisor for Giffords, a gun control advocacy organization, led Republican and gun rights groups to reject his nomination.

“I'm pleased to see the withdrawal of David Chipman's nomination to be Director of the ATF," U.S. Rep. Ralph Norman (SC-R) tweeted. "Big win for our Second Amendment rights!”

President Biden recently pulled David Chipman's nomination as the next director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) due to bipartisan reservations regarding his prior gun-control activism, according to a report by CBS News. | Senator Tom Cotton/Twitter

Since 2015, the ATF has been without a Senate-approved director; Biden nominated Chipman to head the agency in April.

Additionally, Biden branded U.S. gun violence as a "national embarrassment" after the April shooting deaths of eight workers at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis by a gunman who later killed himself, according to a Reuter's report.

According to another Reuters report, the majority of Americans support stricter gun laws, but have little faith in their politicians to enact them as the Senate has yet to pass any such legislation.