2020 Democrat Julián Castro said he's tired of waiting for Trump to follow through on universal background checks for gun purchases
Democratic presidential candidate Julián Castro said Sunday he’s tired of waiting for President Donald Trump to follow up on his talk about universal background checks during gun purchases.
“The biggest lies that the president has told include that he would do something about universal background checks,” Castro said one day after a mass shooting in Texas, the second in Castro’s home state in August. “He said that twice — after Parkland and then after El Paso and Dayton. He’s gone back on his word. Those are the biggest things that count for this president.
“If I were president right now, I would do two things,” Castro told NBC’s Chuck Todd on “Meet the Press.” “First of all, I would maximize executive authority to do what we can to keep our families safer from gun violence. For instance, we would immediately redefine who is a firearms dealer so that anybody who sells more than five firearms in a year is classified that way and has to conduct universal background checks. We would also push legislation in Congress to get commonsense gun safety legislation done.
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