Biden to announce new nominee to head ATF and rule targeting "ghost guns"
CBSN
President Biden on Monday is set to announce his new nominee to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives after the White House was forced to pull its first ATF nominee in September due to concerns from lawmakers.
Mr. Biden will nominate Steve Dettelbach, a former U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, to run the federal law enforcement agency. "[Dettelbach] should be a noncontroversial candidate because he has a long record of working in law enforcement," a senior administration official said.
In 2018, Dettelbach lost his race to be Ohio's attorney general. During the campaign, he advocated for universal background checks for those who wish to purchase guns, reinstating the assault weapons ban, and restricting guns for people with serious mental health problems, according to WOSU.
