'I'm Amazed,' Sen. Cotton Says, After Hearing ATF Nominee Answer the Question, 'What Is an Assault Rifle?' "You have called for an assault weapons ban. I have a simple question for you. What is an assault weapon?" Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) asked David Chipman at his confirmation hearing on Wednesday.
President Joe Biden has nominated Chipman -- a former ATF agent who later worked as a gun control activist -- to be director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Chipman told Cotton, "an assault weapon would be ...what Congress defines it as."
Pressed for a fuller response, Chipman said the ATF has, in one instance, defined an assault rifle as any semiautomatic rifle capable of accepting a detachable magazine above the caliber of .22, which would include a .223, which is, largely, the AR-15 round."..............
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