Best of the web: A Trump-inspired move by NRA?

Chetan Sharma

Chetan Sharma Jul 4, 2025

Jan 12, 2018

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                <h1>Best of the web: A Trump-inspired move by NRA?</h1>
                <h2><p>Donald Trump may have succeeded in doing what almost no one else has managed to do: getting the National Rifle Association to accept some type of regulation on the sale of firearms. In the wake of the recent massacre in Orlando, Trump announced that he would meet with the NRA</p></h2>
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               <p>By <a href="/author/csharma-kcts9-org/">Chetan Sharma</a></p> 
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            <p>Donald Trump may have succeeded in doing what almost no one else has managed to do: getting the National Rifle Association to accept some type of regulation on the sale of firearms. In the wake of the recent massacre in Orlando, Trump announced that he would <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/16/us/politics/donald-trump-gun-control-nra.html?_r=0&ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">meet with the NRA</a> to discuss stopping those on the terrorist watch list from purchasing guns. If the NRA supports such a ban, they would have to change their past position on the issue. Four months ago, Senate Republicans <a href="https://www.congress.gov/amendment/114th-congress/senate-amendment/2910/actions?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">blocked</a> a similar proposal to stop those on the terrorist watch list from purchasing firearms thanks in part to lobbying by the NRA.</p><p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/16/us/politics/donald-trump-gun-control-nra.html?_r=1&ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">"Trump and NRA leaders to discuss preventing gun sales to people on terror watchlists,"</a> New York Times.</p>
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Donald Trump may have succeeded in doing what almost no one else has managed to do: getting the National Rifle Association to accept some type of regulation on the sale of firearms. In the wake of the recent massacre in Orlando, Trump announced that he would meet with the NRA to discuss stopping those on the terrorist watch list from purchasing guns. If the NRA supports such a ban, they would have to change their past position on the issue. Four months ago, Senate Republicans blocked a similar proposal to stop those on the terrorist watch list from purchasing firearms thanks in part to lobbying by the NRA.

"Trump and NRA leaders to discuss preventing gun sales to people on terror watchlists," New York Times.

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By Chetan Sharma

Chetan is an editorial intern at Crosscut. He is a senior at the University of Washington studying Civil Engineering and Urban Planning. He's previously worked as a journalist at KUOW and an engineer