President Trump's history is all over the place when it comes to the Second Amendment and gun control.
Luckily, he has so far defended the Second Amendment as president, with the notable exception of his foolish, arguably illegal bump-stock ban, which would ban a popular firearm accessory via executive fiat.
So too, on the issue of background checks, Trump’s stance has been far from clear. He’s both opposed and vocally supported so-called “universal background checks” in the past. Yet with Attorney General William Barr meeting with congressional Republicans to push a gun control bill expanding background checks to private gun sales, it’s more important now than ever that Trump does not cave — and rejects background check expansion as the useless virtue-signal it is.
For one, the vast majority of gun sales already go through a background check. Current law requires any federally-licensed firearm vendor to run a background check before completing a sale. This is why almost 90% of firearm sales involve a background check already.