White House Looking Into Gun Control Proposals

By Tom Knighton

President Donald Trump was elected at least in part on the support provided by the NRA and gun owners in general. Since then, we haven’t gotten a whole lot in exchange for that support. Instead of national reciprocity and suppressors in every gun store, we got a ban on bump stocks. Not quite the direction any of us expected when he took office, to be sure.

In fairness, the political landscape has changed. Las Vegas shook a whole lot of people to their core. We were likely going to get some kind of regulation on bump stocks anyway. At least with the way Trump handled it, we didn’t get too broad a ban that also impacted binary and competition triggers.

However, now we’re dealing with yet another shift potentially taking place. Last weekends double-whammy of El Paso and Dayton may also have shaken lawmakers to their core. It seems enough so that the White House is considering backing gun control legislation.

Alan Gottlieb, the founder of the Second Amendment Foundation and chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, told the Washington Free Beacon he spoke with a top White House staffer. They discussed how …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms