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General Category => National/Breaking News => Second Amendment => Topic started by: mystery-ak on September 17, 2019, 02:15:29 pm
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AWR Hawkins 16 Sep 2019
President Donald Trump is reportedly not planning to include House Democrats’ universal background check bill as part of legislation he supports in response to mass shootings.
The Democrat gun control bill is H.R. 8.
Politico reports that a source familiar with the White House “conversation on guns†indicated that Trump is not going to rally behind H.R. 8.
On September 9, 2019, Breitbart News reported that Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) asked Trump to support H.R. 8, thereby giving “political cover†to allow other Republicans to support it.
Schumer said, “President Trump has an historic opportunity to save lives by indicating his support for the House-passed bill [H.R. 8]. Speaker Pelosi and I have repeatedly and personally asked him to do this.â€
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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/09/16/report-trump-will-not-support-universal-background-check-bill/ (https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/09/16/report-trump-will-not-support-universal-background-check-bill/)
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Assuming he sticks to this...it's good news for the Second Amendment and for gun owners.