PERFECT!
Posted on 08/20/2019 3:45:01 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
President Trump called National Rifle Association (NRA) CEO Wayne LaPierre on Tuesday to tell him that universal background checks for gun purchases are off the table, The Atlantic reported.
The decision to oppose an initiative that has strong support in public polling signals an apparent backtracking by the president from initial comments he made following two mass shootings earlier this month in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, that left 31 dead.
Trump at the time indicated support for legislation on “meaningful background checks,” saying the issue was not a question of the NRA or political partisanship.
“On background checks, we have tremendous support for really common-sense, sensible, important background checks,” Trump told reporters on Aug. 9 following the shootings.
However, Trump reportedly no longer supports the initiative.
“He was cementing his stance that we already have background checks and that he’s not waffling on this anymore,” a source told The Atlantic with regard to Trump's phone call with LaPierre on Tuesday. “He doesn’t want to pursue it.”
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Bless you, President Trump.
And how did The Atlantic know he called and what the topic was?
The right decision but their are still spies in his network.
He’s getting it right. He does need to figure out how more data can get into these checks. Too many ‘nuts’ are buying guns legally. No red flag bullcrap. Reform data flow from FBI or states or schools or anywhere they can to flag people buying who either get denied or get a deeper check to qualify.
Red flag is simply going to become a vendetta for pissed off exes and political hacks.
We already have background checks..no need for anything else. Dems dont want to talk about mental health since the majority of the mass shooters are commies
Perhaps Trump is realizing that gun control will cost him more votes than it will bring in.
Too bad he can’t tell Wayne, ‘You’re fired!’
Good job PDJT! Now tell Ivanka to take her hair-brained ideas and go cook the kids some dinner...
With universal background checks will come penalties for breaking the law, and the only way they will know if you sell your pre-UBC guns is if they have universal registration.
now to repeal the “gun control” laws and reassign ATF staff to constitutional, useful duties in other agencies
trump never planed on fallow through. it was all about letting the next news cycle clearing the outrage mob.
“Universal anything” is a Marxist concept. It should be avoided like the plague.
“Bless you, President Trump.”
Amen.
Maybe the president figured out that of all the so-called “mass” shootings in recent years, none of them involved firearms that were purchased from a private seller.
We should have universal background checks ...
for people running for office. They are far more dangerous than one man with a semiautomatic weapon.
+1 Mr. President.
That’s the FIRST THING I thought. The NRA CEO would have no reason to leak it at all.
What’s going on?
It’s like Trump’s still being spied on.
Wayne needs to go. He’s become power mad and overly self centered, based on stories getting out.
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