The Daily 202: Jury still out on Trump’s seriousness about banning bump stocks, improving background checks after Florida massacre
Jury still out on Trump’s seriousness about banning bump stocks, improving background checks after Florida massacre President Trump speaks about bump stocks before taking part in the Public Safety Medal of Valor Awards Ceremony in the East Room at the White House on Tuesday. (Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post) BY JAMES HOHMANN with Breanne Deppisch and Joanie Greve THE BIG IDEA: President Trump got the headlines he wanted this morning by signaling openness to modest gun-control measures, but will policy changes really follow? Reacting to the “evil massacre” that left 17 dead at a Florida high school last week, Trump directed the Justice Department on Tuesday to draft a proposed ban on the devices known as “bump stocks.” Then he tweeted that Democrats and Republicans “must now focus on strengthening Background Checks!” And his press secretary told reporters that raising the minimum age at which a person could buy a semiautomatic weapon from 18 ...