Rifle Purchase Age Increase ‘On The Table’ For RNC, Despite NRA Opposition

US President Donald Trump speaks after his introduction by RNC Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel at a fundraising breakfast in a restaurant in New York, New York on December 2, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / MANDEL NGAN (... US President Donald Trump speaks after his introduction by RNC Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel at a fundraising breakfast in a restaurant in New York, New York on December 2, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / MANDEL NGAN (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images) MORE LESS

Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel told The Washington Examiner that the committee was weighing whether to support President Donald Trump’s proposal of increasing the age for rifle purchases from 18 to 21-years-old.

“I don’t know. We’ll see where that goes. I think it’s on the table,” she told the Washington Examiner in an article published Monday. “We have to look at the whole picture.”

She said Trump has been “thoughtful” in his propositions following the latest school shooting in Parkland, Florida that left 17 people dead at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School after a 19-year-old former student attacked the school. 

“I think the President’s been very thoughtful in what he’s proposing,” she said. “He’s listening to these parents. I think universally, we want to make sure our schools are safe. Period.”

In addition to voicing support for raising the purchasing age for rifles — which the National Rifle Association opposes — Trump has also called for arming teachers, comprehensive background check reform and for a ban on bump stocks, an accessory used to make a semi-automatic weapon function like an automatic rifle. This device was used in the Las Vegas attack at a country music festival last year, when a gunman killed 50-plus people. 

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  1. “On the Table”
    We’ll play with it for a while hoping it goes away .
    We don’t want to jeopardize the NRA payoff
    Unfortunately there are some really pissed off teens with cellphones who have discovered that even though they don’t Vote
    they have political power.
    The NRA party is over

    I saw David Hogg on Mourning Joe
    That kid gives me HOPE in the true sense of the word

  2. Avatar for jtx jtx says:

    It isn’t enough! It is frigging smoke screen there are too many of these weapons on the street for age restrictions to work.

    The damn weapon has to go.

  3. Cornyn said two or three days ago he doesn’t think the support is there. I figured that wasn’t random. They’ll mumble out of both sides of their mouths until the trouble blows over.

  4. How many of the damned massacres that have occurred in the last two decades have seen the perp use a bump stock? VA Tech, Columbine, Sandy Hook, Umpqua Community College, Red Lake Senior High School? Not a single incidence of bump stock use in those.
    Bump stock restrictions have little to nothing to offer as far as reducing the carnage. Yet if a Dem says enacting a ban is of little help the GOP and NRA will jump on it to “prove” how Dems don’t really want to do anything to help.

  5. Avatar for jmacaz jmacaz says:

    Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel:

    “I think the President’s been very thoughtful in what he’s proposing,” she said. “He’s listening to these parents. I think universally, we want to make sure our schools are safe. Period.”

    I think Ronna needs to have her hearing checked.

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