Biden is expected to make the announcement by nominating Steve Dettlebach, who served as U.S. attorney in Ohio from 2009 to 2016, at the White House on Monday, citizens said. They were not authorized to discuss the candidacy in public and spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity. The government will also release the final version of its ghost gun rule, which comes as the White House and the Department of Justice come under increasing pressure to fight gun deaths and violent crime in the United States. Dettlebach’s confirmation is likely to be a difficult battle for the Biden government. Biden had to withdraw the candidacy of his first ATF candidate, weapons control attorney David Chipman, after his candidacy was suspended for months due to opposition from Republicans and some Democrats in the Senate. Both the Republican and Democratic governments have failed to find candidates for the ATF position through the politically-charged process since the director’s post was confirmed in 2006. Since then, only one candidate, former U.S. Attorney B. Todd Jones, has been nominated. confirmed. Jones passed the Senate in 2013 but only after a six-month struggle. Jones was acting director when President Barack Obama nominated him in January 2013. The Biden’s plan was first reported by Politico. For almost a year, the ghost weapon rule has been making its way into the federal regulatory process. Armed security groups and Democrats in Congress have been pushing the Justice Department to end the rule for months. He is likely to face heavy resistance from arms groups and legal disputes will erupt in the coming weeks. On Sunday, the leading Democrat in the Senate, Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, begged the administration to move faster. “It’s time for a ghost weapon exorcism before the spread peaks and before more people are injured – or worse,” Sumer said in a statement. “My message is simple: We no longer have to wait for these proposed federal rules.” Ghost weapons are “very easy to make, very difficult to detect and very dangerous to ignore.” Statistics from the Ministry of Justice show that almost 24,000 ghost weapons were recovered by law enforcement agencies at crime scenes and reported to the government from 2016 to 2020. It is difficult to say how many are on the streets, in part because in many cases police sections Do not contact the government for weapons as they cannot be located. The rule is expected to change the current definition of a firearm in accordance with federal law to include incomplete parts, such as the frame of a weapon or the receiver of a long-range weapon. In a proposed rule released last May, the ATF also said it was seeking to require manufacturers and dealers selling arms parts to be licensed by the federal government and to require federally authorized firearms dealers to add a number of firearms to any non-serial weapons you plan to Sell. The rule would also require firearms dealers to carry out background checks before selling ghost weapon kits that contain components needed to assemble a firearm. For years, federal officials have been sounding the alarm about a growing black market for makeshift military-style semi-automatic rifles and pistols. In addition to appearing more frequently at crime scenes, ghost guns are becoming more common when federal agents buy weapons in undercover operations from gang members and other criminals. Some states, such as California, have enacted laws in recent years that require serial numbers to be stamped on ghost weapons. The crucial component for making an undetectable weapon is what is known as a lower receiver, a part that is usually made of metal or polymer. An incomplete receiver – sometimes referred to as an “80 percent receiver” – can be legally purchased online without serial numbers or other markings on it, without the need for a license. Police across the country have reported ghost guns recovered by police. The New York Police Department, for example, said police have found 131 unrelated firearms since January. A gunman who killed his wife and four others in Northern California in 2017 was banned from possessing firearms, but made his own to circumvent the court ruling before his outburst. And in 2019, a teenager used an improvised weapon to fatally shoot two classmates and injure three others at a school in a Los Angeles suburb.
