President Donald Trump said he’ll "seriously look" at banning gun silencers after last week’s mass shooting in Virginia.
“Well, I’d like to think about it," Trump said in an interview with Piers Morgan on ITV’s Good Morning Britain. “I’m going to seriously look at it."
While Trump said he didn’t "love" the idea of a ban, he also was unhappy to see the frequency and severity of mass shootings in the U.S.
Trump’s comments represent a potential crack in Republican opposition to stronger gun control measures.
They follow a shooting last week at a municipal center in Virginia Beach, Virginia, in which a gunman killed 12 people. Police recovered a high-capacity magazine and a silencer mechanism from the scene.
Virginia’s Democratic governor, Ralph Northam, said Tuesday he will summon lawmakers back to the state Capitol to consider a package of gun-control legislation. Republicans control the state’s legislature. Northam’s proposals include a ban on silencers and high-capacity magazines.
The Trump administration earlier this year banned bump stocks, devices that let a semi-automatic weapon fire like a machine gun.
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[–] 19040670? ago
Thankfully he's full of shit.
[–] 19040681? ago
Except he already got bump-stocks banned via executive order. It's in effect right now.
[–] 19040691? ago
Executive orders aren't laws. The ATF instructs owners to "divest themselves" of bump stocks, which is the definition of uncompensated takings. This dies at the first legal challenge, as Trump has surely been told.
I've noticed this is his routine: He runs his mouth like a braggart, promises a ton of things he knows he'll never have to deliver, and then he shrugs when it doesn't happen. Hence my "full of shit" assessment.
Doen't apply to Israel, naturally. There, he's a regular Horton who says what he means and means what he says.
[–] 19040672? ago
It's more likely he'll fuck with firearm accessories than it is he'll do serious deporting. Bumpstocks were just a meme, but, because of that, they redefined what "machine gun" meant.