NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch told ABC News on Sunday that the organisation does not support any ban on bump stocks. Nonetheless, Trump insisted on the ban this Monday, recalling that he had instructed Attorney General Jeff Sessions to develop measures to prohibit those lethal devices.
Trump, who almost a year ago promised the NRA that they would have a friend in the White House, and who received some $30 million from the group for his electoral campaign, said Monday that he had lunched over the weekend with the leaders of the organisation, Wayne LaPierre and Chris Cox, to bring their positions on the matter closer together.
Earlier during the meeting with the governors, Trump again criticised the response of security forces to the February 14 massacre at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Parkland, Florida, where a former student Nikolas Cruz, 19, opened fire and killed 17 students and staffers.
The Broward Sheriff’s Office disclosed Thursday that Scot Peterson, the armed school resource deputy assigned to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, remained outside the building as Cruz went on his rampage. ” I really believe I’d run in there even if I didn’t have a weapon. I think most of the people in this room would’ve done that too,” Trump said on Monday.
