The Daily News
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms got its first permanent director since 2006 Wednesday, when the Senate confirmed B. Todd Jones, by a hair.
It was supposed to be easier. The White House and gun control groups had made an issue of the agency’s lack of a permanent boss. President Obama listed confirming an ATF chief as one of his high-profile gun control priorities in January. On the other side of the ledger, the National Rifle Association, whose hostility to the mission of the ATF Democrats blame for the longstanding failure to give the agency more than an interim boss, declined to fight Jones.
