Democratic senators planned to speak on the Senate floor well into Wednesday night.
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His comment came three days after 49 people were killed when a gunman who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State stormed an Orlando nightclub.
“Restrictions like bans on gun purchases by people on “watch lists” are ineffective, unconstitutional, or both”, the NRA said via Twitter.
Trump’s initiative appears to have shifted that dynamic, with some Senate Republicans coming out in favor of the proposal.
Mixed victory – America has hit a milestone: We now produce more climate-change causing emissions from transportation than we do from generating electricity. “I do not believe this was some random act of violence”, McConnell said.
Mr Trump is a fervent defender of the Second Amendment, but has insisted that people on watch lists should be exempt from the right to carry a gun. Rob Portman of OH, who is locked in a closely watched reelection battle, told reporters that he is ready to back a federal ban on weapons sales to anyone on a terrorist watch list if a compromise can be reached. Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn, a Republican, however, said that his own sponsored bill would accomplish numerous same things.
“If some of those great people that were in that club that night had guns strapped to their waist or strapped to their ankle, and if the bullets were going in the other direction aimed at this guy, who was just open target practice, you would have had a situation, folks, which would have been always disgusting”, Trump said. “We will send details at the appropriate time”, campaign spokeswoman Hope Hicks said.
“Our position is no guns for terrorists-period”, the association wrote. If someone was denied a gun, he or she would be entitled to a swift court hearing where the attorney general would have to turn over the evidence against the person.
“Anything which they feel restricts the use or the ability to retain a gun they’re opposed to”, King said, per the New York Daily News. “The Cornyn bill is outlandish and is worse than nothing”. It is appalling that anti-gun politicians are exploiting the Paris terrorist attacks to push their gun-control agenda and distract from President Obama’s failed foreign policy. “The terror watch list and the no-fly list – I’m going to be talking to the NRA about that and starting a real dialogue”.
The president, and several leading Republicans, have attacked Trump for renewing his call to ban foreign Muslims from entering the US.
The NRA’s case against banning people on the watch list was outlined in the same statement on Wednesday.
The FBI has two terror “watch lists”. It broadly includes people “known or reasonably suspected to be or have been engaged in conduct constituting, in preparation for, in aid of, or related to terrorism”, including those only “being preliminarily investigated to determine whether they have links to terrorism” and those “for whom the FBI does not have an open terrorism investigation”.
While the gunman, Omar Mateen, was not on a terror watch list at the time of the shooting, he had previously been investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
NRA Executive Director Chris Cox also voiced backing for legislation offered in December by Cornyn, who proposed to put gun sales on hold for 72 hours for people on watch lists.
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The White House “would welcome support from anybody, including the presumptive Republican nominee”, spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters Wednesday, but added, “It’s unclear at this point what his intentions are”.
