Former President Donald Trump recently boasted at the NRA Presidential Forum on Friday that he “did nothing” about guns during his term in the White House though he had “great pressure.”
Speaking at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex, Trump – an NRA Life Member – boasted:
You have a right to self-defense, you’ve always had that right, and during my four years, nothing happened, and there was great pressure on me having to do with guns. We did nothing. We didn’t yield. And once you yield a little bit, that’s just the beginning. That’s the avalanche begins.
Four more years of Joe Biden means four more years of anti-gun communists running the ATF. They’re gonna run it, they’re already– they’re running it now, just in case you have any questions. But it means hundreds of more radical left judges waging a crusade against law-abiding gun owners, and four more years of Joe Biden means a non-stop war on gun manufacturers, dealers, and sellers designed to put the entire industry right out of business. They want to put it out of business.
Trump then praised his relationship with the NRA, before adding, “I don’t know what they’re doing in May, but I understand they’re having a very big event in May. They better endorse me, that’s the only thing I can say.”
It has been noted that Trump had a “mixed record on gun control” during his time in the White House, according to FactCheck.org, which noted that Trump took “action to strengthen federal gun control,” but also “eased gun restrictions.”
The former president repeatedly changed his stance on gun control measures following meetings with the NRA and received heavy criticism from many gun owners after he banned bump stocks in response to the 2017 Las Vegas shooting.
