The city of Chicago and gun control groups want Glock to pay. Why? Because of a third-party-designed device that converts the guns into machine pistols. These full-auto switches are illegal to make, buy, or own, but people do it anyway, and the argument is that Glock hasn't completely redesigned its handguns to prevent this.
But did the White House collude with anti-gun groups to facilitate this?
That's the question a lot of people are asking, including Rep. James Comer, who has issued a subpoena to try and find out:
House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) is today issuing subpoenas to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) and the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, which is overseen by Vice President Harris, for refusal to provide information in response to the Committee’s records requests. The Committee is investigating potential collaboration between the Biden-Harris Administration and anti-Second Amendment plaintiffs, specifically in the pending litigation City of Chicago v. Glock et al.
“The Committee has learned that on December 20, 2023, the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention met privately with representatives from Glock, during which the Administration requested that Glock change their pistol designs…” Chairman Comer wrote to White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention Director Feldman. “Plaintiff’s counsel has publicly shared details of a private meeting that your office had with Glock, Inc., the defendant in the lawsuit, which raises serious concerns about whether you or your staff abused the authority of your office and committed ethical violations by colluding with outside parties to initiate a lawsuit against a politically disfavored private entity.”
Chairman Comer first wrote letters to the White House Office on Gun Violence Prevention and ATF on June 14, 2024 requesting documents and communications related to private meetings between Glock and the White House. The Committee has failed to receive any responsive documents in response to its requests.
“Having been informed by a whistleblower that you communicate on a daily basis with White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention Deputy Director Rob Wilcox via mobile device(s), the Committee previously wrote to you requesting communications between you and Mr. Wilcox to determine whether these communications have been improperly used to coordinate and share information with plaintiff’s counsel. The Committee requested that you provide these records by August 28, 2024. Given that you have so far refused to provide any information in response to the Committee’s records requests, the attached subpoena is being issued pursuant to the authority delegated to the Chairman of the Committee under Rule XI, clause 2(m)(1)(B) of the Rules of the House of Representatives and Rule 12(g) of the Committee’s Rules,” Chairman Comer wrote to ATF Director Dettelbach.
It should be noted that Glock's handguns are known for their reliability. It's not difficult to see why the company wouldn't want to redesign its guns, especially when the devices being used to illegally convert them are illegal in their own right. It should also be noted that Gaston Glock, the company's founder and original designer, passed away not long ago, so demanding the company redesign the firearm he designed can be a problem on that level as well.
Now, whether or not Glock is doing anything wrong by not redesigning its firearms is one thing.
If the White House's Office of Gun Violence Prevention is passing along information to anti-gun groups, that's a different matter entirely. Unless there's a violation of the law – and since no one at Glock is being arrested, I don't think there is – then the government should remain neutral. It's not their fight, after all.
But if they're knee-deep in this, our tax dollars are being used to help a particular political ideology regardless of what the taxpayers may actually want or believe.
That's wrong on every level.
Unfortunately, it's also probably what happened.
The truth is that the Biden administration has been at war with the American people over the issue of guns. He wants to take away our right to keep and bear arms, arguing that he's an expert and we can trust him to know what he's talking about, all while erroneously claiming that in the Founders' day, you couldn't own a cannon when, in fact, you could.
The idea of Biden's Office of Gun Violence Prevention colluding with a non-governmental entity to advance the gun control cause isn't the least bit shocking.
The only shocking thing is that someone wants to do something about it.