President Donald Trump is insisting the U.S. already has “very, very strong background checks” for gun purchases and is noting many of his supporters “are strong believers in the Second Amendment,” in another sign he is backing away from supporting expanded checks.
Trump had said in the wake of shooting massacres in Texas and Ohio that he was looking to implement “very meaningful background checks” and that he and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell very much wanted to “do something.”
But Trump said Tuesday that while the current system has “sort of missing areas and areas that don’t complete the whole circle,” the system is overall “very, very strong.”
He says he worries about the potential for a “slippery slope” where “all of a sudden everything gets taken away.”
(AP)
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Well, they do have strong background checks for guns. What normal people understand is that the criminals and the people who want to do harm with guns will get hold of them anyway.
In England they want to ban knives because criminals are using knives. That’s insanity!
He is delusional. He does not realize that it is legal in most states to purchase firearms with no background check.
charliehall, name me one state where you can purchase firearms with no background check. Instant background check system that is in place today is Federal in scope and is administered by FBI. When was the last time you purchased a firearm?
Every licensed dealer must conduct background checks. Private people do not have to run background checks when they sell a gun, because they have no way to do so. What do you expect someone to do, if they have a gun for sale? What would YOU do?
When it comes to the invented so-called “right” of abortion, the courts do not allow anything that would put an “undue burden” on its exercise. Arming oneself is a real right, a fundamental human right, and requiring private people who are not dealers to run checks any time they want to sell, give, or lend a gun to someone — or even to ask them to hold it while the owner does something else with his hands — would put a very undue burden on that right.
They’d have to find a licensed dealer who is willing to run the check for them, and pay that person whatever fee he demanded, and then if the check didn’t come back instantly they’d have to arrange another meeting with the person a few days later. It’s impossibly burdensome. Some states have tried to remedy this by requiring dealers to run checks for anyone at a nominal fee; this turns into such a burden for some dealers that they’re pulling out of those states rather than comply.