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
“...reassign ATF employees to...”
Assign them to stand in line at the unemployment offices!
Assign them to stand in line at other countries immigration offices!
Assign them to stand on corners holding cardboard signs!
I'll only bless him for listening to us, since he came out in full vocal support for red flag laws, etc. last week.
We burned down the servers at the White House over this crap, and he got the message.
That's exactly what happened. He was in full support of new anti-gun laws until we burned down the servers at the White House.
Oh? So he called you up and told you that personally, or did you just pull that out of your hiney?
BS on a stick. He fully supported these new draconian anti-gun laws until we raised holy hell about it.
I agree. He has two dyed in wool NYC liberals as his most influential advisers. Javanka. That is why national reciprocity and other conservative items have remained in never never land. They want open globalist borders and firearms limited only to police and private security teams that oligarchs like Bloomberg control.
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