The monument for people killed by weapons is removed from the ATF headquarters: NPR

The Ministry of Justice has confirmed an exhibition that shows victims of weapons violence at the headquarters of alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives (ATF).

The exhibition showed the portraits of 120 people who were killed in arms. A digital kiosk with biographies of every person was also part of the exhibition. An online version was also depressed.

The ATF forces the federal weapons laws and is commissioned to regulate the arms industry. It is within the Ministry of Justice.

One of these portraits was by Robert Lee Godwin Sr., who was shot in Cleveland in 2017 when he collected aluminum doses.

Godwin smiled on the wall on the wall and prepared the fish that he had just caught for a family meal. Godwin's daughter Brenda Joiner describes her father as an enthusiastic fisherman who was modest and loved. She says his place in the opening exhibition is something special.

“It was absolutely an honor and a very proud moment, and I had the feeling that this country actually took recognition and knowledge of all the lives that were lost due to gun violence,” she told NPR.

In an explanation of NPR on Sunday, a Doj spokesman suggested that the victims will continue to honor in a different way, but not only from gun violence: “The ATF will continue to honor the memory of all victims of violent crimes and at the same time preserve the right-wing Americans.”

Ge. Portraits of law enforcement officers who were killed by weapons were also part of the exhibition.

The distance was first reported by The Washington Post.

The Ministry of Justice dedicated the exhibition in April 2024. The bidges planned that a new group of 200 victims was honored by the monument every year.

Former ATF director Steven Dettelbach said in an explanation at the time of the mission last year: “The exhibition” Faces of Gun Convestment “is a permanent memory of what ATF comes to work every day – a memory of why agents risk their lives and why everyone at ATF divides their career of this mission: protecting life and protecting life.”

The BIDEN administration had already selected the new group of award winners who should be installed in the next exhibition and replaced the opening group, according to Kris Brown, President of Brady: United against gun violence. According to Brown, their organization and other groups input delivered the selection process, and new families expected the installation of their relatives to the exhibition last month.

“For people who were already traumatized by weapons violence, only the short lack of care is deep and deeply worrying,” said Brown in an interview with NPR.

Brown considers the DOJ's decision to reduce the exhibition as a political and as an example of the efforts of the Trump administration to re -work the regulations for firearms.

“What they want to do is to deny reality that gun violence exists and that makes me very angry,” said Brown. “What we will see over time is absolutely an increase in gun violence. We will see an increase in murder; we will see an increase in suicide; we will see an increase in the unintentional injury of children with weapons in the house.”

Fred Guttenberg's daughter Jaime was mapped on the faces of the weapons. She was among the 17 people who were shot in 2018 at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

“I worked with the ATF to honor my daughter Jaime and other victims of the Parkland shooting when creating the faces of the arms violence at the headquarters.

The Ministry of Justice answered no question from NPR, in which the portraits are now located.

Brenda Joiner joined the Brady team after her father's death. She made the end of weapons to her life's work.

“I can't bring my father back, but I can fight well for other people, and that was exactly what this wall meant to me,” she said.