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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Wed Feb 28, 2018, 11:41 AM Feb 2018

NRA directly appealed to Trump against raising age for firearms purchases

Source: CNN



By Elizabeth Landers, CNN

Updated 10:35 AM ET, Wed February 28, 2018

Washington (CNN) - National Rifle Association leaders appealed directly to President Donald Trump about not raising the age limit for buying certain firearms, a senior administration official tells CNN.

The appeal came when Trump had lunch with the leaders on Sunday. The official said the NRA would prefer that the White House pursue school safety programs.

The official, however, said that although the White House continues to speak with the NRA, they're not going to agree on everything.

The White House will unveil school safety proposals on Thursday before the President leaves for the Billy Graham funeral on Friday, the official said.

Read more: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/cnn-nra-asked-trump-reconsider-age-increase-rifle-sales

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NRA directly appealed to Trump against raising age for firearms purchases (Original Post) DonViejo Feb 2018 OP
All they care about is sales SHRED Feb 2018 #1
+10000000 bronxiteforever Feb 2018 #2
Nice to know our president can be bought. Initech Feb 2018 #3
30 million just a drop in Trumps bucket. Historic NY Feb 2018 #4
But Putin already owns him... How does THAT work? dchill Feb 2018 #5
"NRA would prefer..school safety programs." pandr32 Feb 2018 #6
I do not see a great hue and cry even among Gunner Nation to arm 20% of teachers. That must Fred Sanders Feb 2018 #7
You would think pandr32 Feb 2018 #8

pandr32

(14,202 posts)
6. "NRA would prefer..school safety programs."
Wed Feb 28, 2018, 12:07 PM
Feb 2018

In other words, arm teachers and weaponize schools. They have taken the most recent mass school shooting and are using it to expand their market into our children's schools--not talk sensible gun control and gun safety as they once did (in a former NRA lifetime before they were taken over by "freedom loving" libertarians).
Already, death by gunshot has become the third leading cause of death of children in this country. Perhaps their plan is two-fold--sell guns of every type to every American regardless of age (making a killing [pun intended]), and cut the population to a smaller number of people in the process.

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
7. I do not see a great hue and cry even among Gunner Nation to arm 20% of teachers. That must
Wed Feb 28, 2018, 12:26 PM
Feb 2018

even give gunners pause as to Trump's sanity.

pandr32

(14,202 posts)
8. You would think
Wed Feb 28, 2018, 12:57 PM
Feb 2018

But Trump takes his orders from the NRA and Putin. The right-wing media will work to lull the "Gunner Nation" into compliance.
Let's hope not and that sanity will prevail.

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