Trump Announces Meeting With NRA on Democrats Wanting to Secretly Limit 2nd Amendment

The Democratic Party's latest idea for gun control is to ban people who are on the “no-fly” and terror watch lists from buying guns.

It's been pushed by President Obama, Congressional Democrats and a recent op-ed in the New York Times.

As Obama said in December:

“Congress should act to make sure no one on a no-fly list is able to buy a gun."

Conservatives have attacked the idea, describing it as an attack on due process and the Second Amendment.

As they point out, the names on the list are secret. People don't know they're on the list until they're blocked from flying, and it's very difficult to get off the list, even if you're innocent. In addition, the way that people are on the list means they aren't able to challenge their status.

Because of those problems, the ACLU, a civil liberties group, has come out against using the no-fly list to limit gun purchases.

So most Republicans are opposed, and they're preventing the idea from coming to a vote in the House.

The Senate, however, voted on the idea in 2015.

The vote failed to pass. As MSNBC noted at the time:

Forty-five senators voted for the bill and 54 voted against it. One Democrat, Sen. Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, and one Republican, Sen. Mark Kirk of Illinois, crossed party lines.

The measure would have denied people on the terrorist watch list the ability to buy guns.

But there is one VERY prominent Republican who appears to be open to the idea.

Donald Trump tweeted Wednesday:

This is not the first time Trump has indicated such a position. In December, he told CBS host John Dickerson that he would “look into it” when asked about the no-fly list ban.

The NRA endorsed Trump in May, telling Republicans still opposed to him "to get over it.”

The presumptive GOP nominee has generally been strongly in favor of gun rights, as Independent Journal Review reported in September. His plan supports a national right to carry, opposes gun magazine bans, would permit military personnel to carry weapons on base and opposes expanding the background checks system.

But Wednesday's news places Trump in the position of potentially being opposed to the NRA, and most Republicans, on this fierce political fight.

Independent Journal Review has reached out to the Trump campaign for clarity on his position, and this story will be updated if they respond.

Editor's Note: This post was updated after publishing.