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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<what is checks and balances
Congress can cut funding but as you pointed out yourself executive orders aren't fucking laws so they can't be overridden by laws. They're above the law and carried out as such.
This is technically true but only if a court is wants to challenge the order. No court wanted to challenge the bump-stock ban so it went into effect, but they did challenge his EO to ban muslims.
You are the one denying that they have any power at all. Look up the bump-stock ban, talk to a local gunstore owner and tell him all this shit and he will laugh at you. The ban is in effect. I would hope the courts would challenge EO gun control but they haven't so far, so why would they now? Hmmm?