The director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), Steve Dettelbach, could not define an “assault weapon” during a budget request hearing.
Dettelbach explained to Representative Jake Ellzey (R-TX) that the Biden administration supports an “assault weapons ban.”
Ellzey then called for Dettlebach to define an “assault weapon,” but Dettlebach was unable to do so.
Reporting from the Daily Caller:
“I’ll go shorter than that, because honestly, if Congress wishes to take that up, I think Congress would have to do the work, but we would be there to provide technical assistance,” Dettelbach said. “I, unlike you, am not a firearms expert to the same extent as you maybe, but we have people at ATF who can talk about velocity of firearms, what damage different kinds of firearms cause, so that whatever determination you chose to make would be an informed one.”
