Trump Made It Easier for Mentally Ill to Get Guns

“President Trump responded to the El Paso and Dayton mass shootings by insisting that ‘mental illness pulls the trigger not the gun,’ but shortly after taking office he quietly rolled back an Obama-era regulation that would have made it harder for people with mental illness to buy guns,” NBC News reports.

“Trump did so without any fanfare. In fact, the news that Trump had signed the bill was at the bottom of a White House email that alerted the media to other legislation signed by the president.”

“And it came after the House and Senate, both of which were Republican-controlled at the time, passed a bill, H.J. Res 40, which revoked the Obama-era regulation.”