‘A flip flopping con man’: Conservatives freak after Trump hints he’ll support stronger gun control

[DonViejo]

With his poll numbers in free fall, it looks like Donald Trump is attempting to make a “pivot” to the center of sorts on the issue of gun control.

In a Twitter post on Wednesday, Trump said that he planned to meet with the National Rifle Association to talk “about not allowing people on the terrorist watch list, or the no fly list, to buy guns.”

Donald J. Trump

?@realDonaldTrump

I will be meeting with the NRA, who has endorsed me, about not allowing people on the terrorist watch list, or the no fly list, to buy guns.

RETWEETS 7,215
LIKES 21,024

Pro-gun conservatives immediately sensed betrayal from Trump and rushed to condemn his apostasy by ripping the presumptive nominee for caving on gun control.

“This year (Trump) got the NRA endorsement and he just threw them under the bus,” thundered Erick Erickson at The Resurgent. “Banning people on the terror watch list and no fly list are terrible ideas because the second amendment is a fundamental right.”

Other conservatives were similarly angry, albeit not very surprised given Trump’s wildly erratic shifts in policy positions:

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http://www.rawstory.com/2016/06/a-flip-flopping-con-man-conservatives-freak-after-trump-hints-that-hell-support-stronger-gun-control/

[jmg257]

1. See associated post of new NRA "delay" stance...interesting.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027918532

[BlueNoMatterWho]

3. Looks like the NRA and Agent Orange may be on the same page.