The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) has been given new leadership. Multiple reports indicate that Daniel Driscoll, the Secretary of the Army, will lead the embattled agency in the future.
According to several media sources, he will be the acting ATF director, replacing FBI head Kash Patel.
Driscoll will handle dual duties while serving as acting ATF director. The Senate confirmed the 38-year-old as head of the Army in February.
Patel was named the acting director in late February, and there is no immediate word on the cause of the change. The agency is under intense fire for a pattern of targeting small gun businesses and firearm owners over what many believe are minor infractions.
The ATF, like the FBI, is an agency within the Department of Justice. It has some 5,200 employees and an annual budget of roughly $1.6 billion.
According to his Army biography, Driscoll served as an officer for four years and was deployed to Iraq. He was a former advisor to Vice President J.D. Vance (R) and earned a law degree from Yale after his military tenure.
The ATF has taken steps in recent days to correct practices that were criticized during the previous administration. Just last week, the agency rescinded the policy of stripping federal licenses from gun dealers for minor and inadvertent infractions.
Often these “zero tolerance” actions concerned little more than paperwork errors.
The ATF drew harsh criticism for seemingly skirting congressional authority and having bureaucrats establish what amounted to new laws concerning Second Amendment rights.
The exact timing of Patel stepping down and Driscoll assuming the ATF’s reins is unclear. White House officials have suggested a possible merger for the ATF with another agency such as the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), but there are currently no specific plans to make this happen.
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