{"id":187877,"date":"2019-08-23T18:28:56","date_gmt":"2019-08-23T18:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/trump-still-looking-at-gun-background-checks-senator-murphy.html"},"modified":"2019-08-23T18:28:56","modified_gmt":"2019-08-23T18:28:56","slug":"trump-still-looking-at-gun-background-checks-senator-murphy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/trump-still-looking-at-gun-background-checks-senator-murphy.html","title":{"rendered":"Trump still looking at gun background checks: Senator Murphy"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"Image_zoom\"><\/figure><figcaption><\/figcaption><p>(Reuters) &#8211; President Donald Trump wants to keep discussing tougher background checks for gun purchases, a leading Democratic senator on gun control said on Friday, adding that Trump\u2019s support is crucial for the U.S. Congress to pass reform legislation when it returns to work next month.  <\/p>\n<p>Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy, who sponsored a background-checks bill intended to prevent mass shootings like those that recently killed 31 people in Texas and Ohio, said the White House reassured him the Republican president wants to move forward. Murphy said the White House also confirmed its interest in \u201cred flag laws\u201d that temporarily keep guns away from potentially violent people. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeveral days ago some of the president\u2019s comments seemed to suggest that he was once again backing away from his commitment to work on background checks legislation,\u201d Murphy said at a briefing in Connecticut. \u201cI have been in contact with the White House this week since the president\u2019s comments &#8211;  as late as last night &#8211; and I believe that the White House is still committed to trying to work on a comprehensive anti-gun violence proposal that would include strengthening background checks.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>But Murphy sounded a downbeat note. The White House is difficult to negotiate with and Trump has buckled in the past on pledges to tighten gun controls under pressure from lobby groups such as the National Rife Association, Murphy said. <\/p>\n<p>Without Trump\u2019s support any measures would die in the Republican-dominated Senate, Murphy said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe president\u2019s language is always vague and hard to follow on almost every issue he talks about and it has been especially difficult to parse when he\u2019s talking about the issue of changing America\u2019s gun laws,\u201d Murphy said. \u201cHe\u2019s talking to the gun lobby much more frequently than he\u2019s talking to me.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Trump has rejected accusations from Democrats, who control the House of Representatives, that he is backing down on background checks. On Wednesday, he said he spoke with the NRA about closing loopholes in background checks but he did not want to take away the constitutional right to own guns.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"Attribution_content\">Reporting by Lisa Lambert; Editing by Andrea Ricci<\/p>\n<p>Article source: http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~r\/Reuters\/PoliticsNews\/~3\/bt76ZV6Ftbc\/trump-still-looking-at-gun-background-checks-senator-murphy-idUSKCN1VD23Z<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211; President Donald Trump wants to keep discussing tougher background checks for gun purchases, a leading Democratic senator on gun control said on Friday, adding that Trump\u2019s support is crucial for the U.S. Congress to pass reform legislation when it returns to work next month. Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy, who sponsored a background-checks bill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-187877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}