US President Trump announces withdrawal from international arms sales treaty to the National Rifle Association by demanding support for 2020 presidential elections
US President Donald Trump addresses those gathered at the annual National Rifle Association convention in Indianapolis, Indiana, the US. April 26, 2019.
"You better get out there and vote," he said, telling the crowd of thousands that the 2020 election "seems like it's a long ways away. It's not."Gun activists denounced the treaty when it was under negotiation as an infringement of civilian firearm ownership, despite the well-enshrined legal principle that says no treaty can override the Constitution or US laws.
But much of the legislation the group championed has stalled, due, in part, to a series of mass shootings, including the massacre at a high school in Parkland, Florida that left 17 dead and launched a youth movement against gun violence that has had a powerful impact. The Democrats winning control of the House in the midterms did not help the NRA either.
"I've never seen the NRA this vulnerable," said John Feinblatt, president of Everytown for Gun Safety, a nonprofit that advocates for gun control measures.
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