WASHINGTON — The top official at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is leaving the job at month’s end.
An agency spokeswoman says Thomas Brandon will retire on April 30. He’s the ATF’s deputy director but has been leading the bureau since 2015.
Under Brandon’s leadership, the ATF investigated some of the nation’s deadliest mass shootings.
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