The Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) said he supports banning certain firearms, while noting that such a measure would have to be approved by Congress.
He denied that the ATF bore any responsibility for the ongoing dispute over pistol braces.
“I’m a member of the administration; I agree with the president, [and] the attorney general. It will be up to Congress, of course, as the president has said, to decide whether to act on (a weapons ban),” said ATF Director Steven Dettelbach during an interview with The Washington Post on April 3.
The question of an “assault weapons” ban arose during a discussion about violent crime. Post reporter Leigh Ann Caldwell showed an animation illustrating a bullet’s effect on a human body. She also showed a video in which Alfred Lyons, 70, a minister from Jackson, Mississippi, explained why he purchased an AR-15 rifle….