Trump has reportedly 'abandoned' gun violence legislation


President Trump has apparently forgotten one of his biggest promises.
Over the summer, several mass shootings had even the conservative president saying he'd start working with Democrats for stronger background checks. But what started as a multifaceted action plan has devolved into a topic Trump doesn't even mention anymore, White House officials and lawmakers tell The Washington Post.
After back-to-back shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, Trump pledged to work "with urgent resolve" to combat the issue, namely through strengthening gun background checks. Aides from the Domestic Policy Council started working on an action plan with eight to twelve tenets, and the NRA reportedly started getting worried.
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Now, that's all been "abandoned," the Post reports. Trump "no longer asks" about gun control, and the council has started working on other topics, the Post continues. And as a person close to the NRA has said, the organization is no longer talking with the White House, signaling that everything seems to be holding steady.
So just what happened to Trump's resolve? Impeachment, apparently. Both Trump's campaign manager Brad Parscale and acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney reportedly worry about the supporters he'd lose if he took aim at current gun freedoms, and Trump can't risk losing them now that he's in an official impeachment inquiry.
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Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.
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