President Joe Biden’s administration is slated to nominate gun control advocate David Chipman to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), the agency that attempts to prevent the trafficking of firearms. Chipman, who previously served in the ATF for 25 years, is a former adviser to the gun control advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety and currently advises gun control group Giffords. In making the announcement, Biden’s office said that the “ATF is the key agency enforcing our gun laws, and it needs a confirmed director in order to do the job to the best of its ability … But ATF has not had a confirmed director since 2015. Chipman served at ATF for 25 years and now works to advance commonsense gun safety laws.” Chipman, in a Jan. 24 opinion article, claimed that the Constitution’s Second Amendment “envisions firearms as being ‘well regulated,’ and individual sheriffs aren’t entitled …