close Video Fox News Flash top headlines for June 16 Fox News Flash top headlines are here.... The problem, however, is that we can’t effectively do that when the agency that has been tasked with enforcing our nation’s gun laws has not had a Senate confirmed director in seven years.... Like me, Steve is a former U.S. Attorney.He earned high marks as a prosecutor and for leading the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Ohio, from 2009-2016....

Joe Manchin told CNN that he would back Steve Dettelbach to run the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco

of Biden's nominee, former U.S. attorney Steve Dettelbach, in letters to the Senate Judiciary

First on CNN: Major County Sheriffs of America endorses Biden's ATF nominee Steve Dettelbach An

Explosives, Steve Dettelbach speaks during an event at White House in Washington, April 11, 2022.... New

For his part, Dettelbach vowed to run the agency without political interference in the hearing

, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Steven Dettelbach on May 25, 2022, during a Senate Judiciary Committee

Just one day after 19 children and two teachers were gunned down in the second worst school mass shooting in US history, Senator Cory Booker slammed Republicans for what he described as years of efforts to effectively neuter the federal agency responsible for enforcing the nation’s gun regulations.... And it gets so bad at the ATF that … they literally have to put them into shipping containers outside because the floor of the building would buckle, ” he said.... “ It is so ridiculous what my R

Since then, only one nominee, former U.S. Attorney B. Todd Jones, has been confirmed.... Jones was acting director when President Barack Obama nominated him in January 2013. The Biden administration’s plan on guns was first reported by Politico. For nearly a year, the ghost gun rule has been making its way through the federal regulation process.... It says those parts must be licensed and include serial numbers....

President Joe Biden, in conjunction with the Department of Justice, announced a new measure Monday to crack down on what law enforcement says is the growing problem" ghost guns" and called on Congress to pass universal background checks." They call this rule I'm about to announce extreme.... " A" ghost gun" is a firearm that comes packaged in parts, can be bought online and assembled without much of a trace--a point Biden demonstrated with props.... Mandel Ngan/ AFP via Getty Images President