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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[–] 19052884? ago
A shame, because having to see that hag as president may have been what it took to kick off an actual move to forcibly change the course of history.
Instead we got red zioman who BTFO's the libs on twatter while demographically displacing his base and thereby ensuring nobody can even run on HIS platform (weak and rather centrist as it was) because that's a dead position in a sub-50% White population with universal suffrage.
[–] 19052887? ago
Neither of us can say what the events today will mean 10-20 years from now. Trump may be what triggers a Biden/Michelle Obama win which triggers the forcible move. Neither of us are prophets