David Chipman, Joe Biden’s pick for director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, supports measures that would turn tens of thousands of Sen. Joe Manchin’s constituents into felons overnight. For that reason alone, voting to confirm Chipman should be a non-starter for the West Virginia Democrat.

Oddly enough, Manchin’s vote is still up in the air. With universal Republican opposition to Chipman in the upper chamber, the only thing standing between him and control of the nation’s firearm law enforcement agency is the gentleman from West Virginia.

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