That was in response to the 2019 El Paso Mass shooting. that resulted in 23 killed..
(He also talked about Gun Control back in 2018, after a mass shooting in Florida)
He was told to forget it…
It would cost him his job…
He forgot it….
One of the most extraordinary moments of Donald J. Trump’s presidency was an hourlong meeting with U.S. senators in the aftermath of the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., in which he forcefully argued for a litany of gun safety measures that the National Rifle Association had long opposed.
Mr. Trump’s support for gun control measures — which he unrolled on live television from the White House on Feb. 28, 2018 — astonished lawmakers from both parties. But the next day, N.R.A. officials met with Mr. Trump without any cameras or reporters in the room, and he immediately backed down.
That apparent surrender to N.R.A. pressure came to sum up Mr. Trump’s record on gun control in the eyes of his critics.
Unbeknownst to the public, however, Mr. Trump again pushed inside the White House for significant new gun-control measures more than a year later, after a pair of gruesome shooting sprees that unfolded over 13 hours. Those discussions have not previously been reported.
On Aug. 3, 2019, a far-right gunman killed 23 people at a Walmart store in El Paso. Early the next morning, a man shot and killed nine people outside a bar in Dayton, Ohio. Both assailants used semiautomatic rifles.
At the White House the next day, Mr. Trump was so shaken by the weekend’s violence that he questioned aides about a specific potential solution and made clear he wanted to take action, according to three people present during the conversation.
“What are we going to do about assault rifles?” Mr. Trump asked.
“Not a damn thing,” Mick Mulvaney, his acting chief of staff, replied….
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On Second Amendment issues, Mr. Trump’s team often wore him down by burying him in the technical details of gun policy.
Indeed, in the August 2019 conversation, when Mr. Trump suggested he wanted to find a way to ban assault weapons, Mr. Mulvaney asked how he defined them, according to the people in the room. Commonly, the term refers to a class of weapons including the AR-15 semiautomatic rifles regularly used in mass shootings.
“Well, it’s the military weapons,” Mr. Trump responded.
Legally, AR-15s are civilian versions of a military weapon that has been heavily regulated since the 1930s.
“Mr. President,” Mr. Mulvaney shot back, “military assault weapons are already against the law.”
The president abandoned the idea….
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For those of u who think things are ALL about Donald Trump?
The above is a prime issue showing that Trump actually has pimped the Grand ole Party’s policy to fit ‘his’ goals….