The Senate Judiciary Committee on May 25 met to consider the nomination of Steven Dettelbach to be director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms, and Tobacco (ATF), leading to a tense exchange between Dettelbach and Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) over the definition of an “assault weapon.”
The meeting comes in the wake of a school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, that left 21 dead, sparking renewed cries among Democrats for stricter federal gun control legislation.
