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Trump to meet with NRA about banning gun sales for terror watch list [View all]
Last edited Wed Jun 15, 2016, 01:32 PM - Edit history (2)
Source: Politico
Trump to meet with NRA about banning gun sales for terror watch list
By Nolan D. McCaskill and Seung Min Kim
06/15/16 10:01 AM EDT
Updated 06/15/16 10:30 AM EDT
Donald Trump will meet with the National Rifle Association to discuss preventing people on the terror watch list or no-fly list from buying guns, he announced Wednesday.
“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 Wednesday.
His announcement comes in the wake of the worst mass shooting in American history, during which a gunman slaughtered 49 people and injured 53 others inside an LGBT nightclub in Orlando, Florida, on Sunday.
Following November’s terrorist attacks in Paris in which 130 people died, Trump backed a Democratic-pushed measure to bar people on the watch list from purchasing guns.
“If somebody is on a watch list and an enemy of state and we know it’s an enemy of state, I would keep them away, absolutely,” Trump told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos in November.
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By Nolan D. McCaskill and Seung Min Kim
06/15/16 10:01 AM EDT
Updated 06/15/16 10:30 AM EDT
Donald Trump will meet with the National Rifle Association to discuss preventing people on the terror watch list or no-fly list from buying guns, he announced Wednesday.
“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 Wednesday.
His announcement comes in the wake of the worst mass shooting in American history, during which a gunman slaughtered 49 people and injured 53 others inside an LGBT nightclub in Orlando, Florida, on Sunday.
Following November’s terrorist attacks in Paris in which 130 people died, Trump backed a Democratic-pushed measure to bar people on the watch list from purchasing guns.
“If somebody is on a watch list and an enemy of state and we know it’s an enemy of state, I would keep them away, absolutely,” Trump told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos in November.
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Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/donald-trump-nra-meeting-224362
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UPDATE #2 from Reuters:
Source: Reuters
World | Wed Jun 15, 2016 2:22pm EDT
Sales to people on terrorism watch lists should be delayed: NRA
The National Rifle Association said on Wednesday it stood by its position on terrorism watch lists and access to firearms, saying sales to potential buyers who are on the lists should be delayed while they are investigated by the FBI.
In a statement, the gun lobbying group said it welcomed a meeting with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. It also said protections needed to be put in place to allow people wrongfully put on a terrorism watch list to be removed.
(Reporting by Washington newsroom; Editing by Mohammad Zargham and Lisa Von Ahn)
Sales to people on terrorism watch lists should be delayed: NRA
The National Rifle Association said on Wednesday it stood by its position on terrorism watch lists and access to firearms, saying sales to potential buyers who are on the lists should be delayed while they are investigated by the FBI.
In a statement, the gun lobbying group said it welcomed a meeting with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. It also said protections needed to be put in place to allow people wrongfully put on a terrorism watch list to be removed.
(Reporting by Washington newsroom; Editing by Mohammad Zargham and Lisa Von Ahn)
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-florida-shooting-guns-nra-idUSKCN0Z123H
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