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salinsky

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Mon Jun 13, 2016, 11:39 AM Jun 2016

Trump did not predict what happened in Orlando, but someone did ... [View all]

I just came from a meeting today in the Situation Room in which I got people who we know have been on ISIL Web sites, living here in the United States, U.S. citizens, and we’re allowed to put them on the no-fly list when it comes to airlines, but because of the National Rifle Association, I cannot prohibit those people from buying a gun.

This is somebody who is a known ISIL sympathizer. And if he wants to walk in to a gun store or a gun show right now and buy as much — as many weapons and ammo as he can, nothing’s prohibiting him from doing that, even though the FBI knows who that person is.


President Obama - 10 days before the Orlando massacre

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/obama-to-gun-owners-im-not-looking-to-disarm-you/
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