Trump Wants Joe Manchin’s Gun Control, Rejects Steve Scalise’s National Reciprocity Push

Breitbart ^ | 2/28/18 | AWR HAWKINS

[OneVike]

President Donald Trump embraced Sen. Joe Manchin’s (D-WV) gun control bill but rejected Rep. Steve Scalise’s (R-LA) push for national reciprocity during a bipartisan meeting with lawmakers Wednesday afternoon. After listening to Sen Chris Murphy (D-CT), Trump looked at toward the end of the table and asked Sens. Pat Toomey (R-PA) and Joe Manchin (D-WV) to detail their gun control bill.

The Manchin/Toomey gun control bill is the same universal background check legislation supported by Barack Obama in the wake of the heinous attack on Sandy Hook Elementary School. It the very bill that was defeated in the Democrat-controlled Senate on April 17, 2013.

Toomey described it for Trump, saying the bill “strengthens the reporting of information into the background check system” and “requires background checks on all commercial sales.” This is code-talk for requiring background checks on private gun sales, which Toomey described as sales at gun shows and online (even though online sales already require a background check).

Manchin then spoke and suggested that West Virginians will support the Manchin/Toomey gun control bill if Trump will support it. He did not mention that the Manchin/Toomey bill would not have prevented the Florida attack — just as it would not have prevented the Sandy Hook attack that spawned it.

Trump spoke of the using the Manchin/Toomey bill “as a base” to which other gun bills can be added, and then continued taking comments from various senators and representatives in attendance.

When it was Rep. Scalise’s time to speak, he highlighted the crime-fighting value of concealed carriers and the need to pass national reciprocity legislation.

[ealgeone]

Trump hasn't done or said anything horrific.

Not yet.

Toomey described it for Trump, saying the bill “strengthens the reporting of information into the background check system” and “requires background checks on all commercial sales.” This is code-talk for requiring background checks on private gun sales, which Toomey described as sales at gun shows and online (even though online sales already require a background check).

[windsorknot]

Wait, what? National reciprocity is out of the question? I am pi$$ed.

[heights]

Whatever group Trump is in with, he agrees with them. I think if he ran into Hari Krishna’s he’d be selling flowers in airports and handing out leaflets.

[Az Joe]

Read Heller

[SkyPilot]

I need to stop looking at the news. It is all bad. All of it.

- Amazon not paying taxes on Billions, but mine are going up.

- Trump making Sweinstein swoon by telling her to add her "assault weapons ban."

- Trump telling Steve Scalise to back off on National Reciprocity.

- Sessions still hasn't indicted the guilty.

I guess we up to 7D chess now. But I am just too tired and exhausted to look at it any more tonight.

[Trump.Deplorable]

Trump will not get re-elected if he takes guns away from law abiding red state Americans because blue state libtards cannot control the criminals and freaks they created.

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Now he is confiscating guns now? You guys create as much fake news as CNN.

I heard Trump eats aborted babies for breakfast and wipes his butt with the original constitution

[fortheDeclaration]

It is just talk. Relax.

[Ramcat]

Doesn’t our President understand that he’s heading down a slope where even he wouldn’t be able to purchase a firearm because the MSM has declared him unstable!!!

[ssfromla]

Let me guess...more 5D chess by Trump?

Hahahaha

LISTS ARE THE FIRST STEP IN GUN CONFISCATION.

[Renegade]

DITTO!

[Renegade]

DITTO!

[Trump.Deplorable]

Go to bed and everything will be fine in the morning

Trump is just talking

Just like DACA

Remember when everyone thought he sold us down the river? Did not happen folks

Let Trump talk, it is what he does, let him exchange and comment on ideas, it is what he is good at. The guy has ZERO friends in DC and we are all here ready to feed him to the lions at a drop of a hat.

[lizma2]

Wait a bit.

Trump didn’t diss Scalise’s addendum. He said “Put it a different bill.”

So far the bill seems good but if you add in retroprocity the rats don’t have any cover for their histrionics and will vote against it. I think it was a smart move.

We will see. I think he understand give or take better than we do.

And from what I see he’s slowly but surely waking up America to the fact they have an abusive government. The smarter rats are starting to wake up.

[Renegade]

Background checks are done now.What is the probkem ?More are NOT needed.

[Renegade]

Me too!

[Trump.Deplorable]

They already have lists

Heck they can fly a drone over your house and inventory every gun you own

[Renegade]

Trump said it WOULD NOT PASS SO DON’T ADD IT TO THE BILL!

[cowboyusa]

He didn’t even do anything yet!