President Donald Trump has quietly nominated a veteran career law enforcement official, Robert Cekada, to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, a sharp change in direction from ...

The White House is opening a new line of attack on Republicans — as former President Donald Trump demands his party defund federal law enforcement — by arguing that threatening firearm-control ...

President Biden’s pick to lead the ATF, David Chipman, said the White House abandoned him as his nomination floundered in the Senate. In his first interview since Biden withdrew the nomination, ...

This story was produced in partnership with The Trace. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives revoked gun store licenses at a higher rate in 2022 than in any year since 2006, ...

WASHINGTON — The Senate voted 48-46 on Tuesday to confirm Steven Dettelbach to be the director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, making him the first permanent leader of the ...

WASHINGTON (CN) — The agency responsible for enforcing federal gun laws has a permanent director again. In 48-46 split seen as a major win for the Biden administration, the Senate voted Tuesday to ...

In 2009, Steve Dettelbach was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate as U.S. Attorney for Northern Ohio, a position whose nonpartisan law-enforcement duties he undertook with energy, heart and ...

Steve Dettelbach, nominee for director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), left, shakes hands with U.S. President Joe Biden before speaking in the Rose Garden of the ...

In September 2021, the White House withdrew the nomination of David Chipman to lead the bureau. Biden put the blame on Republicans for the inability to get Chipman confirmed, even though there had ...

Biden had previously nominated David Chipman, a former ATF career official, to lead the agency. But the White House withdrew Chipman’s nomination last September after it became clear Chipman did not ...

A White House official confirmed Wednesday that President Joe Biden will name Gary Restaino as acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives until the Senate confirms a ...