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ATF lacks funding to crack down on ongoing gun violence crisis, advocacy group says

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PHILADELPHIA - President Biden's visit to New York on Thursday was intended to heal and talk about gun violence and trafficking that has led to mayhem in the city.Officials say Philadelphia is obviously dealing with the same problems.

Now the question remains whether the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is up to the work of cutting gun violence in the city.Simone Rodgers, 15, lost her life in a spray of gunfire in a city park last summer.Her grieving mother fears gun violence will strike again."My children are good kids.

Everybody's are good kids. We shouldn't have to live like this, it's fearful," Lendale Rodgers said during a press conference with local and federal lawmakers late last month.

Along with police, it’s the role of the ATF to combat gun violence. The leader of a national gun safety group says ATF is not up to the job.Robin Lloyd of Giffords, founded by former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords seriously injured in a shooting, says ATF does not have the resources to aggressively disrupt the flow of illegal firearms and hold gun traffickers responsible."More needs to happen on the front end so we prevent these firearms from even getting into the hands of people who shouldn’t have them," Lloyd tells FOX 29's Jeff Cole.

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