Texas massacre casts shadow over hearing for ATF pick
Less than a day after a gunman massacred 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Texas, a Wednesday Senate hearing for President Joe
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Less than a day after a gunman massacred 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Texas, a Wednesday Senate hearing for President Joe
President Biden’s nominee to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Steve Dettelbach, has the support of the National Sheriff’s Association
Gabrielle Giffords huddled with Vice President Joe Biden in his private office just off the Senate floor on an April Wednesday in 2013, watching the defeat of a bill to expand background checks to most gun sales.
For years, the ATF - the government's gun enforcement agency - has been shadowed by a chronic lack of permanent leadership.
The report highlights the rise in ghost guns and easy availability for consumers to purchase and build them as a factor in an increase in gun manufacturing in the U.S.