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    Former U.S. president Donald Trump speaks during the 2023 National Rifle Association Convention. (Darron Cummings/AP Photo) Former U.S. president Donald Trump speaks during the 2023 National Rifle Association Convention. (Darron Cummings/AP Photo)
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    Former U.S. president Donald Trump urged gun owners to vote in the 2024 election as he addressed thousands of members of the National Rifle Association, which officially endorsed him just before Trump took the stage at their annual meeting in Texas on Saturday.

    鈥淲e鈥檝e got to get gun owners to vote," Trump said a day after campaigning in Minnesota in the midst of his criminal hush money trial. 鈥淚 think you鈥檙e a rebellious bunch. But let鈥檚 be rebellious and vote this time."

    Trump, in his speech, said the Second Amendment 鈥渋s very much on the ballot" in November, alleging that, if Democratic President Joe Biden 鈥済ets four more years they are coming for your guns, 100% certain. Crooked Joe has a 40-year-record of trying to rip firearms out of the hands of law-abiding citizens.鈥

    The Biden administration has taken a number of steps to try to combat gun violence, including a new rule that aims to close a loophole that has allowed tens of thousands of guns to be sold every year by unlicensed dealers who do not perform background checks.

    Trump has pledged to continue to defend the Second Amendment, which he claims is 鈥渦nder siege," and has called himself 鈥渢he best friend gun owners have ever had in the White House鈥 as the United States faces record numbers of deaths due to mass shootings. Last year ended with 42 mass killings and 217 deaths, making it one of the deadliest years on record.

    The presumptive Republican presidential nominee has been criticized by Biden, specifically for remarks that Trump made this year after a school shooting in Iowa. Trump called the incident 鈥渧ery terrible鈥 only to later say that 鈥渨e have to get over it. We have to move forward.鈥

    Speaking Friday in Minnesota, Trump said: 鈥淵ou know, it鈥檚 an amazing thing. People that have guns, people that legitimately have guns, they love guns and they use guns for the right purpose, but they tend to vote very little and yet they have to vote for us. There鈥檚 nobody else to vote for because the Democrats want to take their guns away and they will take their guns away.鈥

    Trump, during his speech, also laced into independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., calling him 鈥渞adical left" and 鈥渁 disaster,鈥 and noting that Kennedy had once called the NRA a 鈥漷error group."

    Former President Donald Trump addresses reporters following the day's proceedings in his trial at Manhattan criminal court in New York, on Thursday, May 16, 2024. (Steven Hirsch/New York Post via AP, Pool)

    鈥淒on鈥檛 think about it. Don鈥檛 waste your vote,鈥 he said. 鈥淗e calls you a terrorist group and I call you the backbone of America.鈥 (Kennedy later said in a Fox News interview that he didn鈥檛 remember his 2018 tweet. 鈥淚 don鈥檛 consider them a terror group and I support the Second Amendment," he said.)

    Trump noted he will be speaking next week at the Libertarian Party's convention and said he will urge its members to vote for him.

    鈥淲e have to join with them," he said. 鈥淲e have to get that 3% because we can鈥檛 take a chance on Joe Biden winning."

    Earlier Saturday, Trump鈥檚 campaign and the Republican National Committee announced the creation of a new 鈥淕un Owners for Trump" coalition that includes gun rights activists and those who work in the firearms industry.

    Biden has made curtailing gun violence a major part of his administration and reelection campaign, creating the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention overseen by Vice President Kamala Harris. Biden also has urged Congress to ban so-called assault weapons 鈥 something Democrats shied from even just a few years ago.

    Harris said in a statement before Trump's NRA appearance that 鈥渁t a time when guns are the number one cause of death for children and teens in America, Donald Trump is catering to the gun lobby and threatening to make the crisis worse if reelected.鈥 She said she and Biden "will continue to take on the gun lobby to keep Americans safe, while Donald Trump will continue to sacrifice our kids鈥 and communities鈥 safety to keep these special interests happy.鈥

    When Trump was president, there were moments when he pledged to strengthen gun laws. After a high school mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, that killed 17 people and wounded 17 others, Trump told survivors and family members that he would be 鈥渧ery strong on background checks.鈥 He claimed he would stand up to the NRA but later he backpedaled, saying there was 鈥渘ot much political support.鈥

    Prominent gun safety groups that have endorsed Biden were planning to demonstrate near the convention center in Dallas where the gun lobby's annual forum was being held.

    While Trump sees strong support in Texas, Democrats in the state think they have a chance to flip a Senate seat in November with U.S. Rep. Colin Allred leading an underdog campaign to unseat Republican Ted Cruz. No Democrat has won a statewide office in Texas in 30 years, the longest streak of its kind in the country. 

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