It comes as no surprise to those watching the Biden Administration’s war on gun owners: Marianna Mitchem, a former top official at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), has now found a new home at Everytown for Gun Safety, the Bloomberg-funded gun control group working overtime to disarm law-abiding Americans.
Mitchem served as Associate Assistant Director of Field Operations (Industry Operations), one of the highest-ranking positions inside the ATF.
During her tenure, she helped lead some of the agency’s most aggressive anti-gun crackdowns — from targeting law-abiding gun dealers (FFLs) for clerical errors, to overseeing the expansion of the illegal gun registry that now contains nearly a billion firearm transaction records.
The Ghost Gun Boogeyman and Weaponized Databases
As chief of the ATF’s Firearms and Explosives Industry Division, Mitchem pushed for the rule reclassifying “ghost guns” and so-called “frames and receivers”, effectively making it illegal for Americans to privately build firearms — a centuries-old right dating back to the Founding Era.
Even more troubling, her leadership oversaw the ATF’s move to digitize and centralize firearm transaction records into a searchable database.
Despite federal law explicitly prohibiting the creation of a national gun registry, Mitchem greenlit changes to how 4473 records are stored and accessed — including the inclusion of pre-1968 and unserialized firearms, which were never previously regulated.
Mitchem’s anti-gun résumé made her a natural recruit for Everytown, an organization that regularly lobbies for bans on semi-automatic firearms, federal gun registries, and expanded background checks — policies eerily similar to those the ATF has attempted to implement through regulatory fiat.
The Revolving Door of Gun Control
This move further confirms what many gun owners have long suspected: the ATF is functioning as a de facto enforcement arm for the gun control lobby.
Under Biden, the agency has become the primary tool for pushing through regulations that Congress won’t pass. And it’s no coincidence that Everytown has fiercely opposed any efforts to reform — or abolish — the ATF.
In fact, gun rights advocates note that Everytown’s policy wishlist often becomes ATF guidance shortly after Democrats take power.
Mitchem’s new role includes working with Everytown’s legal and policy teams, where she is reportedly lobbying to target Glock-type handguns — one of the most commonly owned firearms in America — and continuing her crusade against so-called “ghost guns” and “rogue gun dealers.”
No Surprise from Bloomberg’s Army
Everytown’s hiring of an ATF insider signals a full embrace of the bureaucratic war on gun rights.
This isn’t new — but it is escalating.
Instead of relying on lawmakers and the legislative process, the anti-gun Left is relying on deep-state functionaries and unelected officials to carry out their agenda behind the scenes.
And they don’t care about the Constitution.
The ATF’s recent track record — from its arbitrary bump stock ban, to its forced reset trigger crackdown, to its so-called “dealer in firearms” rule — demonstrates that gun control advocates are weaponizing the administrative state.
With Mitchem now on the outside helping from within, the blueprint for more tyranny is clear.
The revolving door between the ATF and Everytown has officially swung wide open.
