Trump vows to push comprehensive gun background checks: 'Raise age to 21 and end sale of bump stocks

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill




Trump vows to push comprehensive gun background checks: 'Raise age to 21 and end sale of bump stocks!'

BY MALLORY SHELBOURNE - 02/22/18 08:35 AM EST

President Trump said Thursday he will push for comprehensive background checks “with an emphasis on mental health” on gun sales, saying that the age of purchasers should be raised to 21 and bump stocks should be banned.

Link to tweet

Trump on Tuesday directed the Justice Department to put forward regulations to ban bump stocks, a device used to increase a semi-automatic rifle’s rate of fire.

Lawmakers and activists are pushing for gun control after 17 people were killed at a school shooting in South Florida last week. The suspect in the shooting allegedly used a legally purchased AR-15 to carry out the attack, placing the rifle in the center of the debate.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/375018-trump-vows-to-push-comprehensive-background-checks-ban-bump-stocks

[beachbum bob]

1. mere words thaat will lead to nothing as all other words trump has uttered

no way trump will challenge the NRA, he lacks backbone as almost all republicans do

[Zoonart]

2. Uh Huh...

when will that be happening? Two weeks?

[BeyondGeography]

3. So will he rescind his rescinding of the Obama rule

which would have prevented 75k mentally ill people from purchasing a gun?

[dlk]

4. Even if He Actually Does This, It's Far Too Little and Way Too Late

We need a permanent assault weapons ban.

[barbtries]

5. just get rid of military weaponry

in the hands of ordinary citizens. let them check one out at the gun range if it's so fucking important to target shoot.

as far as the ages of the mass murderers go, they weren't all under 21 by any means. wasn't the killer in Vegas over 50?

this is crazy bizarro world. i'm fatigued.

[Bengus81]

6. You POS poser....there WAS a emphasis on Mental Health and guns--you got RID of it

for only ONE reason. A man who was BLACK and DARED to be President and wanted is as LAW.


"The Senate sent their repeal of the Obama-era measure for Trump’s signature on 15 February 2017 — a year and a day before the Parkland shooting — and Trump signed it into law the next week, on 28 February 2017."

[SarasotaDem]

7. Bump Stocks

Are novelties ... we should still ban them but.
Other than shooting into a crowd they are almost impossible to aim at a single target
because of the wobble they cause in the gun itself.

On the other hand , look up binary triggers.
1 shot when you press the trigger and another when you release it.
And ... they are accurate.

They need to do MORE.

[Larrybanal]

8. are they outlawing rubber bands

because there are videos of an AR15 and a rubber band that does the same thing as a bump stock