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| Subject: Rights violation: Trump says ‘bump stocks’ are gone, may use executive order to ban device Wed Feb 28, 2018 4:44 pm | |
| President Trump launched into a freewheeling, televised strategy session with lawmakers over the issue of guns by declaring that he will unilaterally bar so-called “bump stocks” and asking Congress to send him one “terrific” bill aimed at reducing gun violence.
“I’m going to write that out,” Trump said of bump stocks — devices that allow semiautomatic weapons to fire like fully automatic weapons — while speaking to lawmakers gathered at the White House for a much-touted summit on gun safety. Saying he can bar bump stocks with an executive order, Trump added: “You won’t have to worry about bump stocks.”
Trump also pressed lawmakers to send him “one terrific bill” combining several proposals aimed at reducing gun violence, although that could complicate the legislative outlook for such a contentious issue. Congress is already struggling to clear a relatively noncontroversial measure meant to simply improve the reporting of key information to a federal background-checks database.
“It would be so beautiful to have one bill,” Trump told lawmakers at the White House.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/democrats-rally-around-universal-background-checks-ahead-of-white-house-meeting/2018/02/28/13c4a5d2-1ca4-11e8-9de1-147dd2df3829_story.html?utm_term=.7210e155f4ac |
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