The National Rifle Association's head Wayne La Pierre speaks during the 2018 Conservative Political Action Conference
The closed meeting came one day after Trump met with a bipartisan group of lawmakers to discuss gun control.
Cox then retweeted Mr. Trump, who said he had and "Good (Great) meeting in the Oval Office tonight with the NRA!".
White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders told reporters Friday that President Donald Trump made no policy commitments during a closed-door meeting with National Rifle Association (NRA) leaders Thursday evening. Vice President Mike Pence was also present.
At the end of a wide-ranging White House meeting Wednesday with congressional lawmakers on how to toughen gun laws, Trump urged Pennsylvania Sen. Trump's new gun control stance went even further when he shot down the GOP's proposed Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act, which would allow people with permits to carry guns across state lines.
The tweet by the NRA's Cox suggests his meeting with Trump and Pence included the gun lobby's strong opposition to confiscating guns without a court order and due process.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, told Trump that many people may with mental illnesses "are not a danger", and should not be discriminated against.
Sitting to Mr. Trump's right was John Cornyn, the second-most senior Republican in the Senate.
Trump said he "hasn't heard a lot about" the Manchin-Toomey background check legislation during the meeting, asking during the exchange whether the bill had bipartisan support.
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The President also said he was eagerly waiting to sign an executive action to ban bump fire stocks, gun accessories that make it easier for semi-automatic weapons to fire like they are automatic.
The concealed carry measure is the gun lobby's top legislative priority. Chris Murphy. D-Conn., said in a tweet. "I'm hoping there is a way forward".
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, who backs a bill to improve the national instant background check system, said Congress should not go home "empty-handed" in the wake of the February 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. Lawmakers had been making incremental progress on a bill to boost participation in the existing federal background check bill.
Trump also acknowledged the meeting on Twitter, calling it a "good (great)" meeting but offering few details.
The only must-pass measure on the agenda is the spending bill still being drafted to finalize the appropriations process for the year that, once passed, will free up lawmakers to focus their efforts on what is quickly overtaking Capitol Hill: the battle for control of Congress in the midterm elections.
The move may signal that Trump has already taken an abrupt about-face from his own proposals to widely expand gun control legislation, including the adoption of more stringent background checks on some weapon purchases and the restriction of firearm purchase for some young people. The measure, from Sens. Pat Toomey. The president seemed to point him out when making his point that many in the room seemed "petrified" by the NRA. We're meeting with the White House staff.
"Not necessarily universal background checks, but certainly improving the background check system", she said, according to a pool report.
The lawmakers in attendance were both flummoxed and pleased by Mr. Trump's unpredictability. Cornyn insisted his bill with Murphy, a Connecticut Democrats, was "our best and only option" for passage. "I really do. It's time that a President step up". I never thought he'd go there, but not only did he go there, he went way past there to a place no one had a ticket for.
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