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During a meeting with Vice President Pence and senior senators . . .
- Trump endorsed the Assault Weapons Ban.
- Trump endorsed background checks for private sales at gun shows.
- Trump endorsed raising the age to purchase firearms to 21.
- Trump declared the top priority of the NRA since Trump’s election, concealed-carry reciprocity, “will never pass.” (This bill would ensure that if you have a valid concealed-carry permit in your home state, you are allowed to carry a concealed weapon in any state.)
- Trump contended members of Congress were “petrified of the NRA” and that he was not. “They have great power over you people. They have less power over me.”
Finally, Trump contradicted his own vice president’s assurances about due process and basically contended that the government should seize firearms from people it deems dangerous and go back and get legal justification later.
“Take the firearms first, and then go to court,” Trump said. “Because that’s another system. Because a lot of times, by the time you go to court, it takes so long to go to court, to get the due-process procedures — I like taking the guns early. Like in this crazy man’s case that just took place in Florida, he had a lot of firearms. They saw everything — to go to court would have taken a long time. So you could do exactly what you’re saying, but take the guns first, go through due process second.”
This is the sort of comment that might have started armed standoffs with law enforcement had it been uttered by President Obama. Had a Democratic president proposed this — literally grabbing guns without legal cause! — the fury from the NRA would have been hotter than a thousand suns going supernova.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/03/trumps-sudden-love-of-gun-control-isnt-that-sudden/
