The idea of Joe Biden’s administration working closely with gun control groups is about as outrageous as someone eating eggs for breakfast. We all know it happened, at least to some degree, and it’s nothing new. Both sides work closely with organizations that align with their administrations’ interests.
But did the Biden White House go too far with it?
That seems to be the big question before a House committee that wants to know just how closely the administration worked with anti-gunners.
FIRST ON FOX: A powerful House committee is escalating its probe into the Biden administration for alleged collusion with gun control activists.
House Oversight Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., is demanding that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), the federal agency responsible for enforcing gun laws, hand over documents detailing Biden aides’ communications with Everytown for Gun Safety, an influential gun control group founded by billionaire Michael Bloomberg.
Comer’s panel has argued that a now-defunct Biden office may have collaborated with Everytown to help facilitate its lawsuit with the city of Chicago against the gunmaker Glock Inc.
“These records will inform the Committee as to whether the Biden Administration and Everytown colluded to attack private gun manufacturing companies through lawfare to circumvent Second Amendment rights,” Comer wrote in a letter Wednesday to the ATF that was reviewed by Fox News Digital.
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In the letter, Comer cited a 2023 meeting between the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention (WHOGVP) and representatives from Glock, during which Biden officials pressed the gun manufacturer to modify its pistol designs.
When Chicago sued Glock three months later, John Feinblatt, president of Everytown, wrote on X, “Federal officials recently contacted Glock to discuss implementing new ways to modify Glock pistols to make it harder for Glock switches to be installed. Rather than help, Glock has falsely insisted there is nothing they can do.”
Comer argues Feinblatt “appears to have had insider information regarding the WHOGVP’s private meeting with Glock, which raises questions about whether the Biden Administration colluded with Everytown to initiate their lawsuit against Glock,” according to the letter.
It’s unclear exactly what the ramifications of such interactions might be, though legislation designed to prevent this sort of thing seems the most likely response.
And, honestly, there’s something beyond wrong about the White House feeding inside information to a group that is seeking legal action. The fact that Glock told Biden to pound sand regarding redesigning their proven handguns doesn’t somehow make it wrong to hold them responsible for the actions of others, such as putting auto sears onto their firearms. They shouldn’t be held responsible for that, especially as they’ve had nothing to do with auto sears, which were designed by someone else and are made by someone else, shipped to the United States where they’re sold by someone else, and then put on the guns by someone else.
Glock has nothing to do with it beyond making a gun design that someone figured out how to modify illegally.
The White House, though, can ask companies to do whatever they want, I guess, within some reasonable limits, but when they didn’t get the answer they wanted, it seems they likely decided to get Everytown to sue them, leaking the discussion to attorneys for the plaintiff and essentially using the gun control organization as a cudgel to be used to beat Glock for failing to bend the knee.
That disgusts me.
Then again, most of what POTATUS did disgusted me.
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