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Steps meant to address use of guns lacking serial numbers

The administration will crack down on so-called “ghost guns.”

President Joe Biden is nominating Steve Dettelbach, the former Senate-confirmed U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives after anti-gun advocate David Chipman did not muster enough support in the chamber last fall.

New rules will require serial numbers to be added to firearms assembled from do-it-yourself kits and background checks for people who purchase them.

The Biden administration is set to unveil its formal rule to rein in ghost guns, privately made firearms without serial numbers that are increasingly cropping up at crime scenes.

"If you commit a crime with a ghost gun, expect federal prosecution," President Biden said.

Are these unregulated, untraceable firearms made from kits often. it will now require that those ghost gun kits have a serial number and individuals looking to purchase those ghost guns will have to undergo a background check to purchase these individual components that can be put together to form a fully functioning firearm. this follows a lengthy review and comment process that went over at the justice department. today that rule will actually be announced. in addition to that, were expecting ...

The president plans to tap Steven M. Dettelbach to run the troubled agency, seven months after withdrawing his previous nomination.

WASHINGTON -- The Biden administration is nominating an Obama-era U.S. attorney to run the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and plans to come out with its long-awaited ghost gun rule today, people familiar with the matter told reporters.

The White House has also been weighing naming Steve Dettelbach, a former U.S. attorney from Ohio, to run the ATF, sources told AP.