We want to clarify. President Trump assuredly did not purchase a handgun in South Carolin because that would have been illegal. Instead, he ordered a staff member to make a straw purchase for him.
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I can no longer discern fact from fiction...
"Became clear..."
At what point was it not clear? Form 4473 is really straightforward on this!
Became clear when he found out his lie was easy to disprove
Can glocks backfire on a user and hurt them? Just wondering as a non-gun user.
Don’t worry his hands are too little and limp to squeeze the trigger.
They used to, enough that "glocksplode" was a meme in certain gun forums
The article doesn't say: what is illegal about it?
It's against federal law to purchase a handgun if you're under federal indictment. If he really bought the handgun, he'd have needed to have filled out a form. On that form, he'd be asked if he's currently under federal indictment. If he answered yes, he wouldn't be allowed to complete the sale. If Trump answered no, he broke federal law by lying on a government form to buy a gun. This is the exact crime Hunter Biden is being charged with.
Thanks!
If there was some way for both things to be a lie, Occam's razor would demand I believe that to be the case. He has never spoken a word that didn't add more ignorance to a room.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A video posted on X by Trump spokesman Steven Cheung — which was later deleted — showed that the gun in question featured a print of the former president's face.
In the now-deleted X post, Cheung wrote: "President Trump purchases a @GLOCKInc in South Carolina!"
While Trump remains the frontrunner in the GOP race for the White House, he has also been indicted in four criminal cases this year, and therefore cannot purchase a gun under the law.
Amid the speculation, Caitlyn Byrd, a politics reporter at the The Post and Courier, wrote on X that Trump did not purchase a gun on Monday.
In a later post, Byrd wrote: "To be clear: I did not see Trump actually purchase this gun — or any other — during his stop at Palmetto State Armory, but he did ask questions and looked at three different firearms."
Soon after, CNN politics reporter Alayna Treene posted on X that Cheung informed the network that Trump did not actually purchase the Glock while at the Palmetto State Armory.
The original article contains 284 words, the summary contains 174 words. Saved 39%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!
I don't see how anyone could believe in this guy. His numerous lies are so obvious.
As if something being illegal would stop Trump when the goal is to get loved by his victims.