FFL's: Everytown and Former ATF Agent Marianna Mitchem; There Coming for Law Abiding FFL's
By Gregory Kielma
Former ATF Official Now at Everytown Pushes States to Go After Gun Dealers
Former ATF Agent and Official
Everytown's: Marianna Mitchem
Former ATF Official Now at Everytown Pushes States to Go After Gun Dealers
Scott Witner
Says Gregg Kielma,
as an FFL I'm concerned with the proposed restrictions and the possible laws that may hinder my business and or shut me down. Continues Kielma. I'll have more on this, this weekend. Please TAKE A LOOK at Scott Witner article, its extremely concerning.....for all of us.
If you ever wondered what happens when a career ATF bureaucrat lands a soft seat at Everytown, here’s your answer. Marianna Mitchem
left ATF in May 2025 and almost immediately surfaced at Everytown for Gun Safety. And she didn’t waste time easing into the role. According to one former ATF colleague, she reached out after leaving and tried to figure out how to target Glock and Glock-style pistols. That alone tells you what direction she was heading.
Mitchem
just helped roll out a long report titled The Supply Side of Violence How Gun Dealers Fuel Firearm Trafficking.
It reads like someone trying to win an award for excess verbiage. The message, though, is simple. The report blames gun dealers for criminal violence and treats FFLs as the core problem rather than the criminals pulling the triggers.
Her coauthors, Nick Suplina and Chelsea Parsons, both come from the New York Attorney General’s Office
and now sit comfortably at Everytown. Together, the trio spent ample time taking shots at President Donald Trump’s support for gun rights while painting the ATF under President Joe Biden as a model crime-fighting operation.
What doesn’t appear anywhere in their narrative are the ATF’s own high-profile failures under Biden, including the killing of Bryan Malinowski and the fabricated case that left Patrick Tate Adamiak serving 20 years on false charges. Those facts don’t fit the script, so they’re ignored.
Instead, the authors offer a long list of heavy-handed state requirements that would eliminate most gun dealers. They call it filling a federal void. In reality, it reads like a roadmap to wiping out the retail gun market. Here is their wish list straight from the report:
• State licensing stacked on top of federal FFL requirements
• Extensive physical security mandates for every shop
• Yearly background checks and trafficking training for all employees
• Constant state or local inspections
• Mandatory reporting of all gun sales plus complete electronic access to dealer records
• Automatic suspensions and revocations for a wide range of infractions
• Forced handouts on storage suicide and so-called risks of gun ownership
• Civil liability if a firearm from a dealer is ever misused
• Annual trace-data reporting targeting dealers by name
Anyone who’s spent time in a gun shop or on a firing line can see what this really is. None of this stops criminals. It stops dealers. If you can’t ban guns directly, make it impossible for lawful sellers to stay in business.