Posted on 11/12/2016 3:09:53 AM PST by BradtotheBone
Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump -- who said he has a concealed carry permit -- called for the expansion of gun rights Friday, including making those permits applicable nationwide. In a position paper published on his website Friday afternoon, Trump called for the elimination of gun and magazine bans, labeling them a "total failure."
"Law-abiding people should be allowed to own the firearm of their choice. The government has no business dictating what types of firearms good, honest people are allowed to own," Trump wrote.
It's not a departure from what he's said on the trail this year, though it does mark a shift from a position he took in his 2000 book "The America We Deserve," where Trump stated that he generally opposes gun control but that he supported a ban on assault weapons and a longer waiting period to get a gun.
"Opponents of gun rights try to come up with scary sounding phrases like 'assault weapons', 'military-style weapons' and 'high capacity magazines' to confuse people," Trump wrote Friday. "What they’re really talking about are popular semi-automatic rifles and standard magazines that are owned by tens of millions of Americans."
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Shazzam!!!
I love the smell of victory in the morning.
Maybe I’ll take the wife on that trip to New York after all....
The price of riots seems to be going up ;o)
Just getting ready to sign up for a concealed carry class here in Tennessee. Nice to know if we feel like driving to North Carolina, I won’t be a criminal.
I hope this becomes law. The process here is really cumbersome
Better to have national Constitutional carry.
Also, tax credits for all concealed carrying Americans to offset the expense of crimes prevented. $200 every 2 years.
“If we can do that for driving — which is a privilege, not a right — then surely we can do that for concealed carry, which is a right, not a privilege,” Trump said.”
Boom. Game over.
If this passes (and it should), Trump will have restored a lost right. President Trump should also direct the Justice Department to litigate against individual state restrictions on this most fundamental of all our God-given rights. Any state restriction on our gun rights is unconstitutional, and Trump would make America great again if he would force the nullification of all unconstitutional laws.
One of my biggest fears when traveling is carrying a pistol in the car, driving through a rat infested city and getting nailed with felony possession of a firearm.
I hope he can iron some of this out. I passed a national background check to get the concealed permit, it should be good nation wide.
The things Trump has done, and is about to do, someone please tell me, Bush never came close to any of this in his entire 8 years did he?
True, but it's a worthy concession to make seeing as how our electorate is mostly FEmale now as opposed to when the 2nd was adopted.
We might not get such an amendment with our current electorate.
I can imagine a bumper sticker , “ I voted Trump” driving from North Carolina to California
It would be the ultimate trolling experience.
I LOVE this guy!
Best. Election. Evah.
Yep. Would go a long way towards building a much more “polite” society.
I posted this on another thread:
You know how the ‘rats just LOOOVE those czars?
How about a civil rights czar.
This person would simply go city by city, county by county, state by state, ordinance by ordinance and law by law.
Putting every firearm law under extreme scrutiny, fast track ‘em into the courts, and remove them all.
Polar Bear Hunters and Knockout King game players are not happy to hear this.
We don’t have the knock out game BS going on around here because too many armed CCW carriers make Russian Roulette a safer game for thugs to play than the Knock Out Game
Good news indeed!
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