US EditionRocky Mountain Gun Owners Weigh in on Anti-Gun Comments by Trump Administration
Gun rights groups dispute Trump officials’ claims about Pretti’s armed status, warning such rhetoric risks undermining lawful gun ownership and sets a precedent for new restrictions.
- In the days since Saturday, gun rights groups criticized President Donald Trump's remarks after Alex Pretti was shot and killed by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis.
- After the Saturday shooting, federal officials described Alex Pretti as a domestic terrorist, but family members and records show he held a valid Minnesota carry permit.
- Video footage shows an officer removing what appears to be a gun from Alex Pretti's holster just before shots, while the Department of Homeland Security said he approached agents with a 9 mm semi-automatic handgun and agents tackled him.
- The National Rifle Association rebuked Bill Essayli's comment as wrong and urged officials to await a full investigation, while Essayli defended his remarks as targeting agitators, not law-abiding concealed carriers.
- The disagreement underscores tensions as the Trump administration supports Second Amendment rights while defending federal restrictions on nonviolent felons and cannabis users and launching Justice Department litigation projects.
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Did Alex Pretti’s killing open a GOP rift on guns?
Alex Pretti was legally carrying a handgun when federal immigration agents shot him to death in Minneapolis. Does that make him culpable for his own death? White House officials have tried to make that case. “You can’t walk in with guns” when protesting the government, President Donald Trump told reporters on Tuesday. That has angered gun rights organizations that are usually allied with the GOP.The Trump administration is facing a “Second Amend…
Gun rights groups, including the more radical group American Gun Owners, have stressed that Pretti was carrying the weapon legally.
The Trump administration breaks bad on the Second Amendment
The Trump administration is in over its waders this time. Unlike Renee Good, who was shot and killed by an ICE agent in a likely justified shoot after she hit the agent with her vehicle earlier this month, the killing of 37-year-old Veterans Affairs hospital nurse Alex Pretti by one or perhaps multiple border patrol agents appears to have been, at the very least, an egregious mistake. Video evidence suggests that Pretti, who was legally carrying…
Wisconsin gun rights advocates uneasy with Trump comments after Pretti killing
Some Wisconsin gun rights advocates are uneasy about claims from President Donald Trump and his administration that people can't carry guns during protests. The post Wisconsin gun rights advocates uneasy with Trump comments after Pretti killing appeared first on WPR.
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