In a video posted by spokesman Steven Cheung, Trump pointed to the gun and said "Wow," before adding: "I've got to buy one. I want to buy one."

The Trump campaign claimed that he bought a Glock handgun from a South Carolina gun store.

In a video posted on X, a Trump spokesman wrote: “President Trump purchases a @GLOCKInc in South Carolina!”

But his campaign later backtracked and said that the former president didn’t make the purchase.

  • SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml
    491·
    1 year ago

    We want to clarify. President Trump assuredly did not purchase a handgun in South Carolin because that would have been illegal. Instead, he ordered a staff member to make a straw purchase for him.

    • ImmortanStalin@lemmygrad.ml
      6·
      1 year ago

      They’re extremely reliable. They don’t have a safety other than a little tab on the trigger, so he has to be negligent with his trigger finger…

      • Mostly_Gristle@lemmy.world
        81·
        1 year ago

        They actually have three internal safeties: There’s the one on the trigger which prevents the trigger from moving backward unless something is inside the trigger guard, is physically on the trigger shoe, and pulling it backward. There’s a sort of little shelf on the trigger sear which part of the cruciform slots into which prevents downward movement of the cruciform and keeps it from slipping off the striker and allowing the gun to fire if dropped. Then there’s the firing pin safety plunger, which prevents the firing pin/striker from moving forward until the plunger is depressed by a protrusion on the trigger bar when the trigger is in the pulled position. Which means you have to do something monumentally stupid and reckless to shoot yourself in the foot.

        • DoomBot5@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Which means you have to do something monumentally stupid and reckless to shoot yourself in the foot.

          Like pulling the trigger while the gun is pointed at your foot? So there is still a chance.

    • TechyDad@lemmy.world
      69·
      1 year ago

      It’s against federal law to purchase a handgun if you’re under federal indictment. If he really bought the handgun, he’d have needed to have filled out a form. On that form, he’d be asked if he’s currently under federal indictment. If he answered yes, he wouldn’t be allowed to complete the sale. If Trump answered no, he broke federal law by lying on a government form to buy a gun. This is the exact crime Hunter Biden is being charged with.

  • MagicShel@programming.dev
    8·
    1 year ago

    If there was some way for both things to be a lie, Occam’s razor would demand I believe that to be the case. He has never spoken a word that didn’t add more ignorance to a room.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    A video posted on X by Trump spokesman Steven Cheung — which was later deleted — showed that the gun in question featured a print of the former president’s face.

    In the now-deleted X post, Cheung wrote: “President Trump purchases a @GLOCKInc in South Carolina!”

    While Trump remains the frontrunner in the GOP race for the White House, he has also been indicted in four criminal cases this year, and therefore cannot purchase a gun under the law.

    Amid the speculation, Caitlyn Byrd, a politics reporter at the The Post and Courier, wrote on X that Trump did not purchase a gun on Monday.

    In a later post, Byrd wrote: “To be clear: I did not see Trump actually purchase this gun — or any other — during his stop at Palmetto State Armory, but he did ask questions and looked at three different firearms.”

    Soon after, CNN politics reporter Alayna Treene posted on X that Cheung informed the network that Trump did not actually purchase the Glock while at the Palmetto State Armory.

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