Only Structural Changes Will Prevent Another Biden-Style Anti-Gun Lawfare Scandal

The House Oversight Committee is investigating whether the Biden Administration, ATF, and Everytown for Gun Safety coordinated behind the scenes to wage lawfare against America’s firearms industry. If true, it’s exactly what gun owners have warned about for years.

The ATF isn’t just an agency that “enforces the law.” In the hands of anti-gun politicians, it becomes a weapon against gun owners, gun dealers, gun makers, and the entire Second Amendment.

Now Congress wants answers.

According to a June 24 letter from House Oversight Chairman James Comer to ATF Director Robert Cekada, the Committee is seeking documents and communications between ATF, Biden Administration officials, Everytown for Gun Safety, and Everytown Law related to lawsuits against firearm manufacturers.

The GLOCK Lawfare Scheme

The issue centers on GLOCK. According to the Committee, the Biden White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention privately met with GLOCK on December 20, 2023, and pressured the company to change its pistol designs. Three months later, the City of Chicago sued GLOCK in state court.

Everytown Law, the litigation arm of Everytown for Gun Safety, was listed as counsel for the city. Then, on the same day the lawsuit was filed, Everytown President John Feinblatt posted publicly about federal officials recently contacting GLOCK. Chairman Comer says that raises serious questions about whether Everytown had inside information from the Biden Administration’s private meeting with GLOCK.

In plain English, Congress is investigating whether federal officials pressured a regulated gun company behind closed doors, then shared or coordinated information with anti-gun activists who turned around and sued that company.

That’s not normal oversight. That’s government-backed lawfare.

The Everytown Revolving Door

The Committee also pointed to the revolving door between the Biden Administration and the gun confiscation lobby.

Rob Wilcox, who served as Deputy Director of the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, previously worked at Everytown for nearly eight years. Marianna Mitchem, a former ATF Associate Assistant Director, later went to Everytown as Senior Firearms Industry Advisor. That should alarm every gun owner in America.

The same gun-ban radicals pushing lawsuits against the firearms industry weren’t merely lobbying from the outside. They had allies and former colleagues inside the federal government. And now Congress is trying to determine whether those relationships were used to help attack private gun companies through litigation.

This is How They Work Around the Second Amendment

The gun confiscation lobby knows it can’t always pass its agenda through Congress, so it uses every other pressure point it can find. Regulatory harassment. Backdoor rulemaking. Politically motivated lawsuits. Pressure campaigns against manufacturers. Attacks on dealers. Leaks to activist groups. And bureaucratic threats designed to make lawful gun commerce too risky, too expensive, and too legally dangerous to survive.

That’s the real scheme. If anti-gun politicians can’t ban guns outright, they try to bankrupt the businesses that make and sell them. If they can’t repeal the Second Amendment, they try to make exercising it impossible. If Congress won’t give them the gun control laws they want, they use agencies like ATF to do the dirty work.

Reform Isn’t Enough

This is why “reforming” the ATF is not enough. A friendly administration can change leadership. It can reverse bad rules. It can issue better guidance. It can tell the agency to back off. But the machinery remains.

The next anti-gun administration can re-weaponize it all over again. Gun owners saw it with pistol braces. They saw it with forced reset triggers. They saw it with “zero tolerance” attacks on FFLs. They saw it with ATF’s endless attempts to stretch federal law beyond recognition.

And now Congress is investigating whether the Biden administration and ATF were part of a broader effort to coordinate with Everytown-backed litigation against firearm manufacturers. That’s not a personnel problem. That’s a structural problem.

“The ATF doesn’t need a makeover. It needs to be abolished,” said Texas Gun Rights President Chris McNutt.

“As long as Washington has a federal gun control bureau sitting there, the next anti-gun administration will use it to target gun owners, dealers, manufacturers, and anyone else standing in the way of their agenda. Gun owners cannot settle for temporary relief while the weapon stays loaded.”