The new chief of the nation’s top firearms regulator said he’ll partner with local law enforcement and use crime data to catch more illegal gun dealers in a bid to combat the country’s highest gun-murder rates in decades.
Steve Dettelbach, director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), said he’s particularly focused on reducing hate-fueled crime like the 2018 anti-Semitic attack at a Pittsburgh synagogue.
“We are not going to sit back and let this become somehow something that is normalized in our country,” Dettelbach said in an exclusive interview Wednesday with Bloomberg Government.
That sentiment echoed ...
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