Biden plans to crack down on 'ghost guns' with action on Thursday


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  • Thursday, 08 Apr 2021

FILE PHOTO U.S. President Joe Biden visits a coronavirus disease COVID-19 vaccination site at Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria Virginia U.S. April 6 2021. REUTERSKevin Lamarque

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden visits a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination site at Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Virginia, U.S., April 6, 2021. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden on Thursday will unveil his administration's first steps to curb gun violence, including a plan to reduce the proliferation of "ghost guns," after a slew of mass shootings have put pressure on him to act.

Biden will announce that the Justice Department intends to issue a proposed rule within 30 days to help reduce the increasing prevalence of untraceable, self-assembled "ghost guns," a White House official told reporters. The details of the rule were not immediately clear.

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