Will our new President Carry a Gun?

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I don't know what good having a gun in the bedroom would do. Anyone who fights their way into the presidents bedroom isn't going to be stopped by a sleepy president with a pistol. If it's an inside job he won't even see it coming. He needs to just trust the best guys in the business.

Trump packing would just make the people who like him like him more, and the people who don't like him like him less.
 
Like George Burns, I also lived in Queens, N.Y until I was about 23 years old and moved out to Colorado.

I can also attest to the fact that New Yorkers are practically brainwashed from birth that gunses is evilll and only cops and crooks have them.

I have no problem with someone "turning around" in his opinion on an AWB, etc., pretty quickly after he deals with real people across the country.

I did a 180 on guns very soon after I moved out to Colorado and breathed the free air of this state... or as it was back then, anyhow.

I therefore see his present, written-down stance on firearms and 2A not very "suspicious." Although he may encounter the realities of "dealing" <ahem> with hard core antis in the government, the very fact that the subject is in the air WRT a President is highly refreshing.

It may turn out that guns become ordinary tools again instead of "GUH-UHNS EEEK!" :what:

Oh, and as long as I'm posting, I'll add that Eleanor was fairly attractive as a young lady. Some of us age well, some of us don't.

Witnesss me.

And as I once wisecracked to some teeny-boppers who commented on my age, "Gee, I hope you don't get this old."

That kind of shut them up.

Terry, 230RN
 
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If I became president I would have a "bucket list" of places to carry that I legally can't now.
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The best indicator of future behavior is past behavior. Trump's past is largely in the Bloomberg/HRC/Reid/Schumer camp on many issues, including guns. I await proof to the contrary, but I doubt the man has any core beliefs at all about anything of substance.
 
The best indicator of future behavior is past behavior. Trump's past is largely in the Bloomberg/HRC/Reid/Schumer camp on many issues, including guns. I await proof to the contrary, but I doubt the man has any core beliefs at all about anything of substance.
yes you are right Hillary would be a champion of the 2nd amendment ahhahahahaahh. wake up
 
a little bit off topic:
When life-term president of Yugoslavia, Marshall Tito died in 1980 , he had a briefcase with him all the time ( usually carried by one of his adjutants). Few decades later they publicized what was inside:
around $10,000, a few million Yugoslav dinars (probably worth additional $10K), and a Zastava 7.65 mm handgun with seven rounds in the magazine.
You would imagine that for somebody who had really expensive taste in hunting rifles and shotguns ( and he had a lot of them), he would carry at least some nice, nickel-plated, engraved Walther PPK ...
 
There is no need for insults & sarcasm in this thread.
And assumptions that any poster who expresses doubts about Trump MUST BE a Hillary fan are ludicrously off-base.
Every bit as much so as those fans of hers who state unequivocally that anybody who voted for Trump MUST BE a racist misogynist.

Those of us who point out that Trump has no history of gun support, that no automatic assumption of a Brave New World is warranted based on the fact that he may own a gun & made campaign noises more favorable to gun owners than Hillary did, and that expectations should be based more on a Show Me than a Tell Me, are not ipso facto Hillary people.

This IS not, and CANNOT be as simple an issue as "You either gotta be 100% for Trump or you're 100% for Hillary!"

Some of us (who voted for Trump) merely say that many expectations are unfounded, ridiculously high, and not supported by anything in the man's past.

It should be possible to assert this without drawing insults & the types of juvenile behavior that Hillary's camp followers displayed immediately after the election.

This forum should (and does) promote at least relatively polite discourse, even among those who disagree with each other.

Some of us are simply saying that hopes for a champion in Trump as "one of us" are unrealistic based on his life to date, and while he (AGAIN) was a better choice than his opponent, he has yet to have sufficient time or opportunity to live up to campaign promises traded for votes.

We don't know, we won't know, and we can't know, until the guy ascends the throne.
When he does, we'll find out one way or the other.

If you're thinking he'll overnight dispense with ATF, revoke 1934, hand out suppressors like Obama did cell phones, and put a gun in every pot (paraphrasing Herbert Hoover), you're in for severe disappointment.
Regardless of whether Trump carries a gun or not. :)

Wait and see!
Senseless bickering & bashing between us here & now is just that. Senseless.
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I doubt it. He has a private army surrounding him that are all sworn to take a bullet for him and we saw ZERO evidence of it during the election when the USSS swept him off stage.
 
I don't care if Trump carries or not, but he should abide by the laws of whichever city or state he is carrying in. That means getting a permit in Washington DC if he wants to tote iron there.

Kinda funny to see some posters here wondering if Teddy Roosevelt was a gun guy. Just go to Google Images and type in "Teddy Roosevelt guns".

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yes you are right Hillary is a champion of the 2nd. amazing how many gun owners voted for her and against themselves

You are being quite dishonest with your attributions. No one here has said anything you have written.

Your comments throughout this thread show your complete lack of comprehension and a total disregard for civility.
 
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Will the new president carry? I sure hope so and I hope it is open carry! Do I actually think that will happen? No. But the thought of irritating these rabid anti-2A folks is satisfying, especially since they believed Hillary was undefeatable!
 
Being from NY originally, I can offer my opinion of an contractor/developer from NYCs tastes.

I'd bet money he has a S&W J frame Chiefs special, which may have been never fired. NY requires no training or proof of competency for a permit, just that you be rich and politically connected. I can't speculate about the HK .45, but I'd suspect it was a gift.

Don't for a second believe Mr.Trump is a " Gun Guy "- he's an NYC elitist, who thinks he and his should be able to have a gun, but not the commoners. Until recently, he was a NYC Democrat, and a supporter of Bloomberg & co..

As to should he carry, if my job was to jump in front of someone in an attack, I'd be really unhappy with that untrained person having a gun behind me.

Also, "Mob Bosses" never, never carry. They have minions for that, and they don't risk getting locked up for anything- they don't even Jay walk.
 
Any more snark against other's comments and this thread will be history. This ain't the Low Road.

Trump's sons are avid hunters. Trump has spoken with at least one US senator that he strongly supports 2A, now, regardless of any views from his past. (Apparently his sons have had strong influence on him.)
 
Trump isn't the only elite New Yorker with a gun permit that seems to be leaning harder to the 2a. I've heard Howard Stern has become outspoken in favor of the 2a as well.
Maybe New Yorkers should be lobbying the Trump brothers to run for Mayor and Governor and fix the gun issue once and for all.
 
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