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WASHINGTON (Reuters) â Gun control advocate and federal law enforcement veteran David Chipman is no stranger on Capitol Hill, where he has previously urged the U.S. Congress to ban assault rifles and fought against efforts to deregulate firearm silencers.
On Wednesday, he will seek its support for his nomination by President Joe Biden to serve as director of the Justice Departmentâs Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, a job that is so politically fraught that the Senate has confirmed just one nominee in the last 15 years.
Chipman has served in a variety of roles at the ATF he has now been nominated to lead, but currently works as a policy advisor for Giffords, a gun control advocacy group founded by former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and her husband Senator Mark Kelly after a gunman shot her in 2011.
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TRENTON, N.J. â Tuesday marks one year since George Floyd s murder in Minnesota.
It also marks the day President Joe Biden wanted Congress to pass comprehensive police reform.
While Biden will be meeting with the Floyd family, he will not be signing any legislation because no deal has been reached on Capitol Hill.
IMPACT OF POLICE REFORM ON POLICE
The New Jersey State Police usually has 10,000 to15,000 applications to become a member of their department in a given year. This year, only 3,600 applied.
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