Trump vows to ‘roll back’ Biden gun rules amid record mass shooting deaths

Donald Trump pledged to roll back gun regulations put in place under President Joe Biden during a lengthy speech to the National Rifle Association convention on Saturday, where the gun group endorsed him for the 2024 election.

Speaking to thousands of members of the NRA at the group’s annual leadership forum in Dallas — after arriving on stage more than two hours late — the presumptive Republican presidential nominee gave away little in the way of policy plans yet urged gun owners to get to the polls in November.

“We’ve got to get gun owners to vote,” the former president said in one of his trademark rambling speeches, covering everything from his criminal trials to trade and immigration across more than 90 minutes.

“I think you’re a rebellious bunch. But let’s be rebellious and vote this time,” Mr Trump said.

Claiming the Second Amendment “is very much on the ballot” in November, the former president alleged that, if Mr Biden “gets four more years, they are coming for your guns, 100 per cent certain”.

He added: “Crooked Joe has a 40-year-record of trying to rip firearms out of the hands of law-abiding citizens.”

“In my second term, we will roll back every Biden attack on the Second Amendment. The attacks are coming fast and furious,” Mr Trump said.

Mr Biden’s pledge to walk back gun control measures comes as the US faces record numbers of deaths due to mass shootings.

According to the Gun Violence Archive, there were 656 mass shootings in 2023 and a total of 18,854 deaths from firearms in addition to 36,338 injuries, making it one of the deadliest years on record. The worst year was 2021 when there were 689 mass shootings.

With gun violence on the rise, the Biden administration has taken a number of new steps to try and