President Donald Trump has nominated a 20-year veteran of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to be its new director. The ATF has been run by interim directors since former Director Steve Dettelbach resigned just before Trump began his second term in January.
The nomination was referred to the Senate’s Judiciary Committee. Cekada has been an ATF deputy director since last April.
Second Amendment advocacy groups praised the choice.
Erich Pratt, senior vice president for Gun Owners of America (GOA), said Cekada should reform the agency.
“If Mr. Cekada is confirmed, we hope he will break with ATF’s current legacy of tyranny and work with GOA to end the agency’s egregious acts and honor both the letter and spirit of the Second Amendment,” Pratt wrote in an email to The Epoch Times….