President Joe Biden named his second pick to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives on Monday, as part of a broader push to highlight the administration’s efforts to address gun violence.
Steven Dettelbach, who previously served as a U.S. attorney in Ohio during the Obama administration, would have to go through Senate confirmation to lead an agency that has gone without a permanent director since 2015.
Biden, at a White House event in the Rose Garden that also marked a new rule meant to curb so-called “ghost guns,” said that Dettelbach was highly qualified and highlighted the former federal prosecutor’s history of prosecuting gun crimes.
