No one will lay a finger on your firearms, says Donald Trump at NRA event
\nWashington DC
\nFormer US President Donald Trump, the front-runner for the Republican nomination in the 2024 presidential election, declared on Friday that he had upheld gun rights during his time in office and that, should he be reelected, he would reverse all of President Joe Biden\u2019s policies.
\nAt a National Rifle Association (NRA) event, where he addressed thousands of supporters, Trump pledged to roll back regulations imposed by the Biden administration, including one that restricted sales of handgun modifications known as pistol braces, according to Reuters.
\n\u201cEvery single Biden attack on gun owners and manufacturers will be terminated my very first week back in office, perhaps my first day,\u201d Trump said in a speech at the Great American Outdoor show in Harrisburg, the capital of Pennsylvania.
\nThroughout the 2016 election and his presidency, the NRA fervently supported Trump, applauding him when he nominated three conservative justices to the Supreme Court and took several actions that the powerful gun lobby had requested. One of these was allowing gun stores to remain open by classifying them as necessary businesses during the COVID-19 outbreak.
\nTrump has persisted in actively courting conservative gun owners because he believes they are essential to his chances of winning reelection. He boasted about defying calls to enact gun control laws while in the White House from 2017 to 2021, telling the assembly on Friday that \u201cno one will lay a finger on your firearms\u201d if he is re-elected.
\n\u201cDuring my four years nothing happened, and there was great pressure on me having to do with guns. We did nothing, we didn\u2019t yield,\u201d Trump said.
\nRepublicans, backed by the NRA and other gun rights organisations, are generally against tougher legislation, pointing to the Second Amendment\u2019s guarantee of the freedom to bear arms. This position hasn\u2019t changed despite a constant barrage of mass shootings and the fact that wealthy nations have the greatest prevalence of gun violence in the US.
\nDuring his ninth speech to an NRA audience on Friday, Trump asked his followers to \u201cswamp\u201d the polls in November, acknowledging that he will need to reclaim the battleground state that he lost in 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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