Thread by @igorvolsky

.@SenAngusKing is holding up @davidchipman's nomination to head ATF during a period of *increasing gun violence and homicides*

If you care about saving lives and you live in Maine CALL KING'S OFFICE NOW [phone])

Demand he do the right thing politico.com/news/2021/08/0…

@SenAngusKing @davidchipman Politico reports @SenAngusKing is "under pressure to buck a pick seen as resistant to gun rights in a state where hunting and gun rights are part of many voters’ DNA"

Supporting background checks ensures PROHIBITED PURCHASERS don't buy a gun what does that have to do w/ hunting?

@SenAngusKing @davidchipman Politico lists policies @DavidChipman supports (as ATF director he would be enforcing *existing laws* not making new ones, obvi).

Majority of gun owners actually back all of this; it's *gun industry* that doesn't b/c it shrinks the market and makes it harder for them to make $

@SenAngusKing @davidchipman Here is a spokesperson for the gun industry *admitting* that they oppose restrictions to gun access (i.e. making it harder for prohibited people to obtain firearms) b/c they would make less money.

in other words: Your life < their money

@SenAngusKing @davidchipman .@SenAngusKing faces a choice:

Side w/ gun industry (which by its own admission opposes regulation, reform, b/c it would cut into profits)

Side w/ Americans who want a full time director of the agency responsible for reducing gun crime

CALL KING'S OFFICE NOW [phone])