Posted on 06/19/2024 11:33:41 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
CLAIM: Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) used a post on X Tuesday to claim Donald Trump refused to ban bump stocks.
VERDICT: False. Trump’s ATF banned bump stocks at his direction.
I'm not going to mince words. By refusing to ban bump stocks and assault weapons, Donald Trump and Republicans are handing killers the tools of mass slaughter. pic.twitter.com/0rqktJKiy3
— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) June 19, 2024
The bump stock ban was announced in 2018, Trump’s second year in office, and went into effect March 26, 2019.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Trump was in line with the NRA’s policy on bump stocks. That’s why he supported it.
Fact check false
NRA-ILA Files Friend of the Court Brief Urging the Sixth Circuit to Vacate ATF’s Bump Stock Rule
“ ATF had determined that bump stocks were not machineguns on ten separate occasions from 2008 to 2017. But that changed in 2018, when ATF announced that it would review its regulatory definition of machinegun. NRA-ILA filed comments opposing ATF’s reinterpretation at that time. Nevertheless, ATF reversed course and classified bump stocks as machineguns. That change prompted several lawsuits.
Democrats are genetically incapable of telling the truth. It is only going to get worse, especially with their allies in the media.
Had the dishonor of talking to him in Hartford, when only Connecticut knew him. Talking to Murphy was like talking to a first grader...(And I think I insulted first graders).
And it took the Supreme Court to reverse Trump's attack on the 2nd.
Of course he is!
He is a LIEberal Democrat!
LIEberals LIE!
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