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But Trump said he had lunch with the gun lobby's leaders over the weekend and told them, "It's time". "We have the Second Amendment and due process of law for a reason".
Texas Sen. John Cornyn, the No. 2 Republican in the Senate, said Trump hosted "an unbelievable meeting" about how to respond to the deadly Florida shooting, but his legislation to strengthen the federal background check system was "our best and only option to act in response". "We're not ditching any constitutional protections simply because the last person the president talked to today doesn't like them".
So far, the legislation with the best hopes of passage is the Fix NICS, which would offer incentives to states that strengthen their background check systems.
A bipartisan bill now before Congress would step up state and federal agency reporting to a national database of offenses that would bar an individual from purchasing a firearm.
"You're afraid of the NRA", Trump fired at Sen.
Trump also floated the idea of taking guns away from potentially violent people - Second, Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments be damned.
Trump said he still supports measures like arming teachers, and was on-board with Toomey and Manchin's expanded background check bill. He also said lawmakers should not bother including a ban on bump stocks - accessories that dramatically increase semi-automatic weapons' potential rate of fire - because he would enact a ban through Executive Order.
Cornyn warned Trump against going big, acknowledging his bill was "not the end-all, be-all", but describing it as a politically pragmatic starting point.
"The White House meeting came amid fresh public debate over gun laws, fueled by student survivors of the massacre at Florida's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, who have been meeting with lawmakers on Capitol Hill". Pat Toomey, R-Pa., and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., who are pushing their bill - which failed twice in the Senate after the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting - to broaden background checks to include pre-purchase reviews at online and gun show sales.
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"It's going to have to be you to bring Republicans to the table on this because right now the gun lobby would stop it in its tracks", Sen.
After a school shooting in Florida, Trump canceled a February 16 speech on infrastructure in Orlando and the White House has not rescheduled it.
The NRA's man in the White House is biting the bullet. If they're not with you, we have to fight them every once in a while.
The Democratic senators say in their letter that "we couldn't agree more".
"If we don't make the schools a harder target, they'll still be vulnerable no matter what we do", Bacon said. "There are several Republican senators, who voted against it in 2013, who have told me they're reconsidering", Mr. Toomey, Pennsylvania Republican, said on MSNBC. "I don't care if Congress does it or not, I'm writing it out myself", he said.
Over the weekend, Trump spent time talking to Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, and the White House is inviting lawmakers from both parties for meetings this week.
"The president still supports raising the age limit to 21 for the purchase of certain firearms", Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Tuesday, but wouldn't clarify the details of what the administration would support.
"You'll never get it passed", Trump said. "I don't have one, but I know a lot of people who do. 'Cause you're afraid of the NRA".
"I like taking the guns early, like in this insane man's case that just took place in Florida", Trump said.
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