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Trump is again strongly pushing the idea of raising the AR-15 purchase age to 21, though he won't fully commit. He suggests senators who don't want to do it of being "afraid of the NRA."
Trump says "it doesn't make sense" that people can't buy handguns until 21 but can buy AR-15s at 18. Says he's the one bringing it up; "a lot of people don't even want to bring it up, because they're afraid to bring it up."
This was the context for Trump's "afraid of the NRA" accusation - complete ignorance of what the famous Manchin-Toomey background check bill is.
"You haven't had this problem," Trump says of Texas, where 26 people were killed at a church in November.
Trump casually says he'll totally sign provisions restricting gun ownership by domestic abusers.

It's amazing to watch him just promise things Republicans in Congress hate and the White House will obviously walk back within 36 hours.
Trump: "The video games, the movies, the internet stuff, is so violent. It's so incredible. I see it. I get to see things you'd be amazed at. I have a very young son."
Not sure if he's just reading the political winds, ignorant of his party's positions or just making it up as he goes along as usual, but Trump is today sounding more like a Democrat than a Republican on guns. S. Sanders walk-back almost guaranteed.
Trump on the NRA: "They have great power over you people. They have less power over me."
Trump keeps claiming that three of the Marines killed in Chattanooga in 2015 were "championship shooters." I've seen no evidence of this in any news reports.
Trump chides Republicans for wanting to pass concealed carry provisions now, saying that people like "Amy" and "Dianne" - Democratic senators Klobuchar and Feinstein - won't support it.
Trump: "Take the firearms first and then go to court." "I like taking the guns early, like in the crazy man's case...take the guns first, go through due process second."

If Obama said this, Fox News might actually implode. There would be an actual fire at Fox News.
Trump today:
- Says cops should confiscate guns from dangerous people even if they don't have a right
- Says lawmakers are scared of the NRA
- Advocates raising age limit for AR-15 buys
- Says he's eliminating bump stock sales
- Endorses restrictions on ownership for abusers
In summary, Trump keeps disparaging gun-free zones, and advocating additional gun ownership by teachers and others...while also endorsing a bunch of things Republicans hate.

For the first time ever I am excited for the next Sanders briefing.
"People are afraid to do background checks, because you're afraid of...somebody," Trump says, another apparent reference to the NRA.
Donald Trump: "I'm not into popularity."

I give this all the Pinocchios. I am reincarnating deceased Pinocchios to give them to this.
Trump just seemed to half-begin an argument for drug legalization, then abandoned it quickly.
"You have to be very, very powerful on background checks. Don't be shy," Trump says in his conclusion.
Two reminders: 1) At another televised meeting like this, Trump told senators he'd sign any DACA-fix bill they brought to him, then rejected and denounced their bill; 2) Ryan and McConnell almost certainly aren't allowing votes on this stuff
The fact is that legislators are dealing with a president who is very opinionated and also does not know what he’s talking about.
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