{"id":103194,"date":"2024-07-24T07:56:47","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T12:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=103194"},"modified":"2024-07-24T07:56:47","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T12:56:47","slug":"103194","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=103194","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

House Oversight Chairman Investigating White House Collusion in Chicago\u2019s GLOCK Balk<\/a><\/p>\n

The head of the U.S. House of Representatives Oversight Committee isn\u2019t playing games when it comes to The White House avoiding answers to questions about potential collusion with antigun groups to target GLOCK, Inc., with a frivolous lawsuit.<\/p>\n

Last week, Chairman of the House Oversight Committee James Comer (R-Ky.)\u00a0fired off a letter<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0in response to The White House\u2019s political gamesmanship. In short, Chairman Comer demanded that Stefanie Feldman, the Director of The White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, quit stalling and provide answers over \u201cpotential collaboration\u201d between Biden administration officials and Everytown for Gun Safety.<\/p>\n

Chairman Comer\u00a0announced an investigation<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0into potential collusion between the Biden administration, gun control groups and the City of Chicago to\u00a0bring a lawsuit<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0against GLOCK, Inc., alleging the company is responsible for the criminal misuse of firearms when criminals unlawfully attach an illegal \u201cswitch\u201d to handguns. The Oversight Committee learned that White House officials met privately with GLOCK representatives to demand a design alteration to their handguns.<\/p>\n

Special-Interest Backed Lawfare<\/h4>\n

\u201cOn the very day the suit was filed, Everytown for Gun Safety President John Feinblatt\u00a0posted on X<\/strong><\/a>, \u2018Federal officials recently contacted Glock to discuss implementing new ways to modify Glock pistols to make it harder for Glock switches to be installed. Rather than help, Glock falsely insisted there is nothing they can do.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Chairman Comer said this indicates that Everytown had inside access to White House meetings. The White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention is staffed by a former Everytown lobbyist, Rob Wilcox. Letters demanding more information were sent to\u00a0Steven Dettelbach<\/strong><\/a>,<\/strong>\u00a0Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), and White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention Director\u00a0Stefanie Feldman<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chairman Comer sent these letters demanding answers on June 14. Instead of answering those questions, White House Deputy Counsel Rachel Cotton responded by\u00a0making counteraccusations<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0that Chairman Comer was shilling for the gun lobby. Cotton provided no answers, only listing off the Biden administration\u2019s gun control efforts and goals, adding Congress \u201cshould open a real investigation into an actual danger to our communities: the proliferation of illegal devices that convert handguns into machineguns in a matter of seconds.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a purposefully misleading attack on not just the House Oversight Committee but also GLOCK. The illegal devices are \u201cautosears,\u201d which are illegal to possess, illegal to attach to a firearm and illegal to use without compliance with the 1934 National Firearms Act (NFA). Cotton, as an attorney, should know that these aren\u2019t produced by GLOCK or any other firearm manufacturer. In fact, they are\u00a0largely illegally imported<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0from China or illegally manufactured by individuals.<\/p>\n

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Curiouser and Curiouser<\/h4>\n

Rather than confront the criminals illegally possessing and using these devices, all indications are that The White House teamed with the City of Chicago who retained Everytown for Gun Safety to file the frivolous lawsuit against GLOCK, Inc. Now that they\u2019re being called out for the potential collusion, the only answers White House officials will provide are temper tantrums over the fact that the House Oversight Committee is doing actual oversight of Executive Branch abuses of courts to bring lawfare against a member of the firearm industry.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe White House should spend more time complying with Committee requests, and less time obstructing congressional investigations into potential misconduct and misuse of office by White House officials,\u201d\u00a0Chairman Comer wrote<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Chairman Comer\u2019s letter noted that the initial deadline for voluntary compliance passed on June 14. He\u2019s extended that deadline until Aug. 2, for The White House to produce all documents between The White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, ATF, Everytown and Everytown Law referencing \u201cGlock switches,\u201d \u201cmachinegun conversion device\u201d and \u201cChicago litigation.\u201d Additionally, Chairman Comer wants all documents and communications between Deputy Director of the White House Office for Gun Violence Prevention Rob Wilcox and Everytown for Gun Safety President John Feinblatt.<\/p>\n

Chairman Comer also noted that failure to voluntarily comply with the information requests could result in subpoenas compelling officials to answer the committee.<\/p>\n

To put a coda on it all, Chairman Comer reminded Deputy Counsel Cotton of the role and responsibility of the House Oversight Committee.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the U.S. House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate, \u2018any matter\u2019 at \u2018any time\u2019 under House Rule X.\u201d<\/p>\n

NSSF is closely monitoring the continued stonewalling of White House officials over collusion allegations that would drag firearm manufacturers into court because they refuse to knuckle under the gun control demands for radical special-interest groups.<\/p>\n

Case Dismissed & Refiled<\/h4>\n

The City of Chicago\u00a0voluntarily dismissed<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0their lawsuit against GLOCK from a federal court, just three days after Chairman Comer reiterated his demand for answers. Just today, the City of Chicago\u00a0refiled<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0their lawsuit in state court, adding GLOCK GmbH and two in-state retailers as defendants in their lawsuit. The change of venue was due to the fact that federal courts require complete diversity of parties to have diversity jurisdiction. It could also be viewed as a way for the City of Chicago and their gun control backers, Everytown for Gun Safety, to be shopping for a more amendable court. This legal maneuver won\u2019t slow down Chairman Comer to obtain his answers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

House Oversight Chairman Investigating White House Collusion in Chicago\u2019s GLOCK Balk The head of the U.S. House of Representatives Oversight Committee isn\u2019t playing games when it comes to The White House avoiding answers to questions about potential collusion with antigun groups to target GLOCK, Inc., with a frivolous lawsuit. Last week, Chairman of the House … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,10,23,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-corruption","category-courts","category-goobermint"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103195,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103194\/revisions\/103195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}