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Michael D. Shear, Maggie Haberman and Sheryl Gay Stolberg

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World
7 Aug 2024
WASHINGTON — In 2013, Donald Trump said he supported background checks for gun purchases to “weed out the sickos.” Two years later, as he prepared to run for president, he flip-flopped, telling Ammoland magazine that he opposed expanded checks because they don’t work.
Past Flip-Flops Cloud Trump's Position on Background Checks