Trump Reminds Press: ‘We Have Very Strong Background Checks Now’

By Dave Workman

U.S.A. –-(Ammoland.com)- While the establishment media is now portraying President Donald Trump as “backing away” from earlier promises that he would consider “very meaningful background checks” as part of a new strategy to deal with mass shootings, mentioned only in passing, in coverage by the New York Times and others, is a fact that about which the press seems reticent.

On Sunday, the president reminded reporters, “People don’t realize we have very strong background checks right now.”

The Daily Beast buried that comment ten paragraphs into its story about the president’s remarks, while the NY Times put it in the third paragraph.

The president’s observation could be the result of reported telephone conversations Trump and the White House had with gun rights leaders Wayne LaPierre at the National Rifle Association and Alan Gottlieb at the Second Amendment Foundation and Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. Those conversations came in the wake of shootings in Texas and Ohio earlier this month.

But there appears to be a hard-to-kill myth that a high number of gun sales occur without background checks, and that such checks …Read the Rest

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