Trump Meets With Lawmakers, Could Soon Announce Gun Control Plan

By Cam Edwards

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President Donald Trump is expected to be briefed on the outlines of various gun control proposals at the White House tomorrow, and could make a public announcement, either in person or on his Twitter feed soon after, according to unnamed White House officials who spoke to NBC News.

Trump was to be given summaries of the various ideas endorsed by members of Congress and White House aides, but he won’t be immersed in any specific legislative language, the official said.

The president, who spoke Thursday with senators advocating for stricter background checks, said after that meeting that he was working with them to “come up with something that is acceptable to everybody,” and that there would be additional meetings Wednesday and Thursday.

“So we’re looking at background checks and we are looking at putting everything together in a unified way so that we can have something that’s meaningful at the same time,” the president said.

Trump is far more likely to come up with something that is acceptable to almost no one than he is to come up with something acceptable to everyone when it comes to background checks. A bill that expands background checks to private sales, as …Read the Rest

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