Former President Donald Trump talks to a crowd throughout a project rally on September 25, 2023 in Summerville, SouthCarolina
Sean Rayford|Getty Images
The Trump project strolled back a claim Monday that previous President Donald Trump purchased a Glock pistol throughout a project drop in South Carolina.
A since-deleted video published on social networks by Trump’s representative, Steven Cheung, revealed Trump being revealed the gun and commenting, “I want to buy one.”
The post on X, previously Twitter, stated that Trump acquired the semi-automatic handgun.
But his project later on informed NBC News that Trump did not in fact wind up finishing the purchase.
Cheung did not react to CNBC’s concerns about his post.
Trump, the front-runner for the 2024 Republican governmental election, this year has actually been arraigned in 4 different criminal cases.
Federal law bars individuals under indictment from purchasing a weapon.
However, that statute was ruled to be unconstitutional by a federal judge in Texas in September2022 The judge because judgment mentioned a Supreme Court choice that overruled a New York weapon constraint previously that year, casting doubt on a multitude of weapon control laws.
Trump deals with an overall of 91 felony counts throughout the 4 cases. He has actually pleaded innocent to all of the charges.
Cheung’s short video was taken at Palmetto State Armory, a weapon shop in Summerville, South Carolina, throughout an unscheduled project stop.
In it, Trump appreciates the pistol being held by an individual beside him.
“Wow,” Trump states in the video as he indicates the weapon.
“I’ve got to buy one. I want to buy one,” he states.
The individual holding the weapon provides a short reaction, and Trump responds once again, “No, I want to buy one.”
Tens of countless individuals in the U.S. pass away in gun-related occurrences each year. Injuries including weapons are the leading cause of death for kids and teenagers, according to information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
There were 48,830 overall weapon deaths in 2021, the most current year for which such information is readily available from the CDC. That was the greatest weapon death tally ever in the U.S.
