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Trump called NRA chief to tell him universal background checks are off the table
The Hill ^ | 08/20/19 | Chris Mills Rodrigo

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.”

SNIP


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: 2020election; 2ndamendment; backgroundchecks; banglist; election2020; guncontrol; harryreid; nevada; nra; secondamendment; trump; trumpbanglist; trumpguncontrol
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1 posted on 08/20/2019 3:45:01 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

Bless you, President Trump.


2 posted on 08/20/2019 3:46:07 PM PDT by madison10
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To: yesthatjallen
Demonic-Rats overplayed the issue AGAIN!

PERFECT!

3 posted on 08/20/2019 3:48:19 PM PDT by onyx
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To: yesthatjallen

And how did The Atlantic know he called and what the topic was?
The right decision but their are still spies in his network.


4 posted on 08/20/2019 3:49:37 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: yesthatjallen

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.


5 posted on 08/20/2019 3:49:47 PM PDT by ilgipper (The mob only destroys. Never creates.)
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To: yesthatjallen

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


6 posted on 08/20/2019 3:50:17 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: yesthatjallen

Perhaps Trump is realizing that gun control will cost him more votes than it will bring in.


7 posted on 08/20/2019 3:50:47 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Where does it say in the Constitution anyone is entitled to the property another has labored for?)
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To: yesthatjallen

Too bad he can’t tell Wayne, ‘You’re fired!’


8 posted on 08/20/2019 3:52:08 PM PDT by real saxophonist (Politicians and diapers need to be changed for the same reason.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Good job PDJT! Now tell Ivanka to take her hair-brained ideas and go cook the kids some dinner...


9 posted on 08/20/2019 3:52:31 PM PDT by farming pharmer
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To: Sarah Barracuda

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.


10 posted on 08/20/2019 3:52:32 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Where does it say in the Constitution anyone is entitled to the property another has labored for?)
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To: yesthatjallen

now to repeal the “gun control” laws and reassign ATF staff to constitutional, useful duties in other agencies


11 posted on 08/20/2019 3:53:01 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: yesthatjallen

trump never planed on fallow through. it was all about letting the next news cycle clearing the outrage mob.


12 posted on 08/20/2019 3:54:34 PM PDT by PCPOET7
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To: yesthatjallen

“Universal anything” is a Marxist concept. It should be avoided like the plague.


13 posted on 08/20/2019 3:54:55 PM PDT by rfp1234 (NBC: Putting the TURD in Saturday.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
I suspect this is so. DJT frequently makes public statements to then see what his base and the rest poll on a subject. He also pays attention to how calls and messages are running, unlike BHO and other libs who are so full of self righteous sanctimony they just dismiss negative polling numbers as just boobs emoting.
14 posted on 08/20/2019 3:55:33 PM PDT by robowombat (Orthodox)
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To: madison10

“Bless you, President Trump.”

Amen.


15 posted on 08/20/2019 3:55:42 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: yesthatjallen

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.


16 posted on 08/20/2019 3:56:34 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Ban liberals, NOT guns.)
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To: yesthatjallen

We should have universal background checks ...

for people running for office. They are far more dangerous than one man with a semiautomatic weapon.


17 posted on 08/20/2019 3:56:37 PM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: yesthatjallen

+1 Mr. President.


18 posted on 08/20/2019 3:58:42 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Zathras

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.


19 posted on 08/20/2019 3:58:43 PM PDT by dp0622 (Bad, bad company Till the day I die.)
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To: real saxophonist

Wayne needs to go. He’s become power mad and overly self centered, based on stories getting out.


20 posted on 08/20/2019 4:01:09 PM PDT by lee martell
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