Spoke with a bunch of House Republicans in the last hour and they widely shot down @realDonaldTrump's proposal to raise the age to buy a rifle from 18 to 21.
Rep. Mark Meadows rejects Trump's idea to raise the rifle age to 21:
"I don't think that that has any legs."
Why not?
"It just doesn't."
"I don't think that that has any legs."
Why not?
"It just doesn't."
Rep. Tom Cole (R-Oklahoma), leadership ally, says the issue of raising the rifle age should be left up to states.
"I'm not sure that we need a national fix on that."
"I'm not sure that we need a national fix on that."
If the Senate passes a clean Fix NICS without concealed carry reciprocity, Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) predicts that'll be "dead on arrival" in the House.
"We had a promise from leadership that we'd bring both up again, together."
"We had a promise from leadership that we'd bring both up again, together."
