{"id":349263,"date":"2018-02-21T20:24:20","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T19:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-how-far-will-trump-go-on-gun-control\/"},"modified":"2018-02-21T20:24:20","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T19:24:20","slug":"prison-planet-com-how-far-will-trump-go-on-gun-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-how-far-will-trump-go-on-gun-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb How Far Will Trump Go On Gun Control?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cIn private, he has indicated that he might do more,\u201d than ban bump stock devices<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Steve Watson<\/strong><br \/>Prison Planet.com<br \/>February 21, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>President Trump is determined to push for stricter gun control legislation in the wake of the Florida shooting, according to reports that have concerned gun owners and conservatives.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/trump-raise-age-guns-bump-stock-gun-control-9dcc2cb2-74aa-4853-8342-71188ca6a3b5.html\"><em>Axios<\/em><\/a>\u00a0reports that Trump has \u201ctold associates that he doesn\u2019t think high school kids should be able to buy guns, and is open to the idea of imposing a minimum purchase age of 21 for guns like those used in the Florida high school massacre.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the report states that the talk is \u201crelatively loose and open-ended so far,\u201d and that no firm decisions have been made, the President tweeted out the following call for politicians on both sides of the aisle to back stronger background checks for gun owners:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Whether we are Republican or Democrat, we must now focus on strengthening Background Checks!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/966119932793585664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 21, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The White House also released a memo Tuesday that indicates Trump has directed the Justice Department to draw up legislation to ban firearm modifiers including the \u201cbump stock\u201d used in the Las Vegas massacre.<!-- [donotprint] --><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ppani\">\n<li>A d v e r t i s e m e n t<\/li>\n<li\/><\/ul>\n<p><!-- [\/donotprint] --><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/video\/c\/embed\/b579355a-1682-11e8-930c-45838ad0d77a\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"\" mozallowfullscreen=\"\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Trump wrote in the memo, \u201cAlthough the Obama administration repeatedly concluded that particular bump stock type devices were lawful to purchase and possess, I sought further clarification of the law restricting fully automatic machineguns.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fox News reports that a DOJ official has confirmed that the department is acting \u201cquickly\u201d on the president\u2019s order.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe department understands this is a priority for the president and has acted quickly to move through the rulemaking process,\u201d spokesman Sarah Isgur Flores said. \u201cWe look forward to the results of that process as soon as it is duly completed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/trump-citing-evil-massacre-in-florida-starts-talking-about-gun-control\/2018\/02\/20\/8da6dd7e-1683-11e8-b681-2d4d462a1921_story.html?utm_term=.14200131d5c1\">The Washington Post has also reported<\/a> that Trump has \u201csignaled an&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/how-far-will-trump-go-on-gun-control.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIn private, he has indicated that he might do more,\u201d than ban bump stock devices Steve WatsonPrison Planet.comFebruary 21, 2018 President Trump is determined to push for stricter gun control legislation in the wake of the Florida shooting, according to reports that have concerned gun owners and conservatives. Axios\u00a0reports that Trump has \u201ctold associates that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-349263","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}