The president said he would nominate former U.S. Attorney Steve Dettelbach to serve as head of the agency, which has been without a Senate-confirmed director since 2015, NBC News reports.
from consideration in September following unanimous opposition from Republicans.
But many of those changes require action from Congress, where lawmakers have been unable to reach a compromise on stricter gun control measures. Gun control advocates have been pushing the White House to go further. Biden said his administration is continuing to go after gun dealers who do not follow the law and gun trafficking across state lines, and is calling for additional funding for community policing programs and the hiring of more police officers.
Law enforcement recovered 20,000 suspected ghost guns last year, a tenfold increase from 2016, Biden said. Because the firearms don't have serial numbers, law enforcement has difficulty tracking their origin when used in a crime. The ATF said it has been able to trace fewer than 1 percent of the weapons, Biden said.
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