The revelation that a now-defunct Biden-era office quietly partnered with Everytown to tee up Chicago’s lawsuit against Glock isn’t shocking—it’s the predictable endpoint of an administration that treated the Second Amendment like a regulatory nuisance rather than a constitutional right. By feeding legal strategy and political cover to the nation’s largest gun-control outfit, federal officials effectively turned taxpayer resources into ammunition for private litigation aimed at bankrupting a major manufacturer. That kind of collusion doesn’t just blur the line between government and activist groups; it erases it, confirming what pro-2A observers have long suspected: when lawsuits can’t win in Congress or the courts on the merits, the administrative state is happy to lend a hand behind the scenes.

For the gun-owning public, the real danger isn’t one lawsuit—it’s the precedent. If agencies can outsource lawfare to ideologically aligned nonprofits, then any future administration hostile to lawful firearm ownership can weaponize federal data, funding, and personnel to harass manufacturers, distributors, and ultimately individual owners. The fact that this operation was run out of an office that no longer exists only underscores how disposable these tactics are; the next iteration will simply wear a different bureaucratic label. Comer’s findings should serve as a warning flare for the 2A community: vigilance can’t stop at tracking legislation; it has to include exposing the quiet partnerships between regulators and restrictionist groups that aim to achieve through litigation what they can’t accomplish at the ballot box.