http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2017/july/06/trump-sends-in-the-gun-confiscation-cops/ (Trump Sends in the Gun Confiscation Cops)
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...In an October 19, 2016 presidential campaign debate against Democratic Presidential Nominee Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump criticized gun control in Chicago in response to a question regarding his opposition to limits on either assault weapons of high-capacity magazines and his support for a national right to carry law. Trump suggested that gun control is not the solution to violence in the city. In particular, Trump declared that, "In Chicago, which has the toughest gun laws in the United States, probably you could say by far, they have more gun violence than any other city." Making his position on guns more clear, Trump followed up with this statement: “I am a very strong supporter of the Second Amendment.” Yet, here is Trump less than a year later sending in a newly created ATF strike force to help Chicago police confiscate guns (and to further punish the people who have possessed those guns), all in the name of reducing violence in the city. An explanation is in order...
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