Fact-checking Trump's vague claims about US background checks

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When it comes to tightening gun control laws, President Donald Trump has been consistently vague on what measures he supports, especially regarding background checks. His recent comments have only caused more confusion about his position, and fueled questions about whether he is walking back from comments he made immediately after the most recent mass shootings.

While Trump previously said he was"looking to do background checks" following the two back-to-back mass shootings in Texas and Ohio earlier this month, he told reporters Sunday"we have very strong background checks right now." Some have suggested that Trump is flip flopping, but the President has not clearly laid out a position on background checks and private sales and his recent comments remain just as vague.

Under federal law, private sellers not looking to turn a profit do not have to run buyers through a background check system. It is illegal for a private seller to sell a gun to someone who is not legally permitted to own a firearm. Private sellers cannot sell a gun to a resident of another state without first shipping the gun to an FFL dealer who will run the buyer through the NICS before handing over the weapon.

 

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The Dem's and the Clinton's are lock stepped with Epstein !

Why are we asking the opinion of the dunce in the class who is basically employed by the NRA?

Fake news

Are they in lock-step with NRA self-dealing, buying 100s of thousands $'s of La Pierre's clothing, and putting up 6 million for a mansion? Of COURSE they are, these two are made of the same corrupt cloth!

fakenewsCNN Faking the news again, only common sense legislation will pass Not the Left Bias legislation that doesn’t work and only helps criminals and not law abiding citizens!! Has nothing to do with POTUS

Boooo! I can't watch anymore! CNN, all this was is grandstanding against Trump. Not news, sad

Tell me how guns are going to be kept from criminals. All the plans that the politicians are talking about ensure that only the government and criminals have guns. That's a deal breaker for me

You mean the 2nd amendment and the 5M plus people that belong to the NRA? Not a financial issue.

I support the NRA 100% ! Always have , always will !

There's a shocker, the states doing nothing about gun violence.

Great, just great. And he will sit in his tower and eat burgers while watching school shootings.

Idiot spin

Taking bribes. It's how he makes money because he sucks as a business man.

That mop looks like a mothball Sanders clone. He’s as dumb as Bernie also.

Dissatisfying you and your like has now become a moral obligation..

Fact checking: still sucks! Fake news!

Stop trying to fact checking this Criminal already.

CNN fact checking is like Hillary using a government issued email. It doesn’t happen.

NotMyPresident

Two words ... Jared Kushner! 🙄

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