Every Gun Policy President Trump Has Proposed
Immediately after the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, it seemed President Trump’s plan was to lie low for a few days and wait until the tragedy fell out of the news — but the survivors of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School wouldn’t let that happen. As it became apparent over the long Presidents’ Day weekend that this shooting wouldn’t follow the usual script, Trump changed course. The White House announced that he would back a stalled Senate bill to improve background checks, and hold several gun violence “listening sessions.”
Soon Trump was, on a daily basis, musing about policies to combat gun violence, yet offering few clear signs about which measures his administration would push to enact. Many Republicans in Congress don’t share Trump’s newfound interest in taking action on guns, making it even harder to determine which proposals should be taken seriously. Here’s a rundown of every gun violence measure Trump has backed, and whether it has any chance of being enacted.
Ending Gun-Free Zones
In his book The America We Deserve, which he released when he was running for president on the Reform ticket in 2000, Trump took a somewhat contradictory stance on guns, writing: “I generally oppose gun control, but I support the ban on assault weapons and I support a slightly longer waiting period to purchase a gun.”
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