Downplays background checks push after mass shooting

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Sept. 1, 2019, 11:59 AM EDT
By Allan Smith

... "Over the last five, six, or seven years, no matter how strong you need the background checks, it wouldn’t have stopped any of it," <Trump> claimed ...

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trump-downplays-background-checks-push-after-odessa-mass-shooting-n1048726

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1. NRA warned Trump about support for background checks

By Kaitlan Collins and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN
Updated 12:48 PM ET, Thu August 8, 2019

... Trump has spoken to NRA chief executive Wayne LaPierre multiple times ... a person familiar with the conversations tells CNN. In those conversations, LaPierre made clear the NRA's stance on renewed calls for expanded background checks -- something the President has privately and publicly supported in recent days.

The NRA chief stressed to Trump that they don't think the calls for more restrictive gun measures in Washington match how his supporters in deep red areas feel about the issue, the person said.

Reflecting that conversation, the gun lobby group tweeted on Thursday that "the NRA's long-standing position that those who have been adjudicated as a danger to themselves or others should not have access to firearms and should be admitted for treatment."

"But, there needs to be real evidence of danger -- and we cannot sacrifice anyone's constitutional rights without due process," the organization said in a series of tweets. "It is not enough anymore to simply say that 'we need more background checks.' Considering both suspects in El Paso and Dayton passed them, that is rhetoric for billionaire activists and campaign rallies -- not a call for constructive progress" ...

https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/08/politics/trump-nra-wayne-lapierre-guns-background-checks/index.html

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2. Appeals court reinstates lawsuit in Charleston church shooting case

August 30, 2019 at 3:03 PM EDT - Updated August 31 at 12:54 AM

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP/WCSC) - A federal appeals court has reinstated a lawsuit over a faulty background check that allowed Dylann Roof to buy the gun he used to kill nine people in a racist attack at a South Carolina church.

A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday reversed a ruling from a lower court judge who threw out the claims. The claims were brought by relatives of people killed in the 2015 massacre at Charleston’s AME Emanuel Church, and by survivors ...

The sale of the handgun to Roof was completed on April 14, 2015, roughly one-and-a-half months after he was charged for possession of a schedule III drug in February 2015, a charge which would have restricted him from purchasing the gun ...

https://www.wistv.com/2019/08/30/appeals-court-reinstates-lawsuit-charleston-church-shooting-case/