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In the wake of the 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, in which 17 students and faculty were killed, the Trump administration commissioned a report on how to stop such massacres. The White House warned the report authors, however, not to use the word \u201cfirearm\u201d at all in an attempt to appease the powerful NRA lobby.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThink about that for just a moment,\u201d wrote ex-Trump official Miles Taylor, who revealed this incident in an article published in Defiance News<\/u> on Tuesday. \u201cThis was a document commissioned because a gunman had slaughtered children in a school, and the White House wanted the guns edited out of it altogether.\u201d He says that at the time, he and the Homeland Security colleague tasked with composing the report noted that it was \u201clike writing a report on flood safety that never mentioned the rain.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then when the report offered the \u201cseemingly modest suggestion\u201d that the government \u201cstudy \u2014 just study \u2014 whether the minimum age to buy a firearm should be raised to twenty-one, the same as the drinking age,\u201d writes Taylor, \u201cTrump was terrified of losing the support of the NRA, an organization that would bristle at the mere mention of the subject. So White House staff demanded the gun lobby be allowed to review the report before it went public.\u201d The report\u2019s author ultimately resigned in disgust before it was released, and when it did come out, rewrites ensured that \u201cthe final report reached the conclusion the gun lobbyists had wanted,\u201d which happened to be \u201cthe opposite of what the government\u2019s own experts had advised.\u201d<\/p>\n

Taylor \u2014 a security expert who served in the administrations of President George W. Bush then President Donald Trump, spending two years in the Department of Homeland Security under the latter \u2014 related this amidst a wider warning about the influence the NRA has on Trump, whose \u201cchanges to federal gun policy, it seems to me, are much more about getting rich than gun rights. And the moves represent the culmination of a tidal shift that began in the first administration.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now, according to Taylor, \u201cTrump\u2019s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) proposed a rule<\/u> that would let gun dealers mail guns directly to people\u2019s homes for the first time. This would replace the current system, where online-bought weapons must be routed through a licensed store for an in-person background check. It would be one of the most consequential changes to American gun policy in decades,\u201d resulting in a projected 3.3 million firearms being purchased by mail per year. <\/p>\n

And who, writes Taylor, stands to cash in? \u201cAmong others, the president\u2019s eldest son. Donald Trump Jr. sits on the board of GrabAGun<\/u>, an online retailer that bills itself as the \u2018Amazon of guns,\u2019 and he holds a stake in the company\u201d \u2014 yet another instance of Trump\u2019s sons profiting off his position<\/u>.<\/p>\n

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Miles notes that this regulatory change is one of some three dozen such rollbacks the administration is pushing, \u201cfrom narrowing background checks on some gun sales to loosening restrictions tied to mental illness. Even the ATF itself was worried about the latter proposal. The agency flagged that the mental illness rollback could contribute to mass casualty events<\/u>, a warning that Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche reportedly dismissed<\/u>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t have to be a Second Amendment critic to find this alarming,\u201d asserts Taylor. \u201cI\u2019m not. Personally, I think responsible gun ownership and sensible public safety were never enemies. Most gun owners I know support background checks and think keeping firearms out of the hands of people in acute crisis is just plain common sense, not some kind of evil \u2018confiscation\u2019 of personal rights. In fact, most Americans writ large agree with those perspectives when asked in surveys.\u201d<\/p>\n

He asserts that, \u201cGun owners should be the first to express concern. Public policy made behind closed doors like this \u2014 with lobbyists hand-editing government reports and cheering on changes that will enrich the president\u2019s family \u2014 can be corrupted in both directions.\u201d Taylor emphasizes that he himself owns and carries firearms, so \u201cit should tell you something that I\u2019m spooked by what the Trump administration is planning to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ll see the results soon,\u201d he warns. \u201cTrump\u2019s gun-selling bonanza isn\u2019t about upholding the Constitution. To any sensible observer, you can see it\u2019s about cashing in. After future mass shootings, we\u2019ll be able to ask ourselves more honestly: at what cost?<\/em><\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

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