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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden announced the finalization of new federal rules restricting so-called “ghost guns” that allow purchasers to assemble potentially untraceable weapons from kits.

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…

Biden’s latest proposed action comes over a year after he promised to implement new regulations on ghost guns

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The guns, which are assembled at home and lack tracking numbers, have been increasingly recovered at crime scenes in US.

Ghost guns pose a challenge to law enforcement, because they don't contain serial numbers, making them difficult to track.

All three victims were shot dead after robbers stole firearms from the shooting range

Untraceable homemade firearms are rapidly proliferating across the country

A U.S. attorney in the Obama administration is being nominated by President Joe Biden to run the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives

The Biden administration is expected to come out within days with its long-awaited ghost gun rule

ATLANTA — Three family members were killed during an apparent robbery at a Grantville gun range Friday, and investigators from multiple agencies worked late into the night at the scene searching for answers to the grim crime.