Trump: “I Do Not Support Expanding Background Checks. The Current Background Checks Do Not Work.” TRUMP: “I do not support expanding background checks. The current background checks do not work.” “They make it more difficult for law abiding citizens to acquire firearms while consistently failing to stop criminals from getting guns. We should re-examine our policy to make sure that these prohibitions do not impede law abiding citizens from exercising their Second Amendment rights.” [Ammoland,http://www.ammoland.com/2015/07/donald-trump- talks-gun-control-assault-weapons-gun-free-zones/ - ixzz3fJVLQL4t7/7/15[29] ] Trump: Some Restrictions On The Second Amendment “Obviously Make Sense.” “No other right in the Bill of Rights has been attacked as often as the Second Amendment. Some of these restrictions obviously make sense. For example, felons and mentally ill people should not have access to guns.” [Trump, Crippled America, 99[30] ] Closing Trump Opposed Expanded Background Checks — “What We The Need To Do Is Fix The System We Have And Make It Work As Gun Intended. What We Don’t Need To Do Is Expand A Broken Show System.” “There has been a national background check system in place Loophol since 1998. Every time a person buys a gun from a federally licensed gun e dealer – which is the overwhelming majority of all gun purchases – they go through a federal background check. Study after study has shown that very few criminals are stupid enough to try and pass a background check – they get their guns from friends/family members or by stealing them. So the overwhelming majority of people who go through background checks are law-abiding gun owners. When the system was created, gun owners were promised that it would be instant, accurate and fair. Unfortunately, that isn’t the case today. Too many states are failing to put criminal and mental health records into the system – and it should go without saying that a system’s only going to be as effective as the records that are put into it. What we need to do is fix the system we have and make it work as intended. What we don’t need to do is expand a broken system.” [DonaldJTrump.com, accessedhttps://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions/second-amendment- rights11/6/15] [31] Magazin Trump Opposed Regulations On The Number Of Rounds Allowed e Limits In Gun Magazines. TRUMP: “Gun magazine limits do not make common sense. I have long opposed such limits. For instance, I fought the SAFE Act in New York, which I call the “Unsafe Act.” I also spoke at a rally in Albany championing gun rights and protesting the Unsafe Act. The law limited capacity to seven rounds, as if criminals were going to take rounds out of their magazines before committing a crime. It was later changed to a limit of ten rounds, but the entire episode was a complete disaster.” [Ammoland,http://www.ammoland.com/2015/07/donald-trump-talks-gun- Confidential Page 231
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