“I will be meeting with the NRA, who has endorsed me, about not allowing people on the terrorist watch list, or the no fly list, to buy guns”, Trump tweeted.
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“The NRA’s position on this issue has not changed”, Cox said. “The NRA believes that terrorists should not be allowed to purchase or possess firearms, period”.
Trump said in a November television interview he would support gun restrictions for someone on a “watch list” who is “an enemy of state”.
The announcement comes as lawmakers from both parties debate what legislative options exist in the wake of the nation’s deadliest mass shooting, at a gay Orlando nightclub where 49 people were killed on Sunday. “And yes, if you’re too risky to get on a plane, you are too unsafe to buy a gun in America”.
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Wednesday said he will meet with the National Rifle Association about preventing people on a USA government terrorism “watch list” from buying guns following the massacre at an Orlando gay nightclub.
While in Mt. Pleasant Tuesday, Representative Mark Sanford told News 2 he agrees there needs to be a focus on security, but he said congress must also review current gun laws.
It failed along party lines on its last vote seven months ago, with Republicans saying the watch list often mistakenly includes people who should not lose their right to bear arms, according to CNN.
And the more broad “terrorist watch list”, maintained by the Terrorist Screening Center, had roughly 800,000 people as of September 2014. “But nothing like the carnage that we all, as a people, suffered this weekend”. “Here, though, we would be removing that safety check”. “And government watch lists could theoretically serves as a means to do that, but only with major overhaul of the watch-listing system because it uses vague and overbroad standards, the result of which innocent people are blacklisted without a fair process to correct government error”. What those victims deserve from Congress, is moments, hours, days and weeks of honest discussion and debate on the issue of an assault weapon ban, no fly-no buy law and reasonable gun control regulations. We want dialogue, we want research, we want responsible gun policies.
Many have pointed out that Donald Trump hasn’t always been as opposed to gun control as he appears to be now.
Sean Davis, co-founder of the influential conservative blog The Federalist posted an essay Monday and argued that the assault weapons ban is a stupid idea pushed by stupid people.
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After each mass shooting in the US, calls for stricter gun control grow louder but responses from the National Rifle Association are minimal or non-existent, NBC News reported.
