Once again, Trump gives mixed signals on background checks for gun purchases
WASHINGTON - Five days after 31 people were killed in two mass shootings, President Donald Trump has sounded authoritative in promising to do "something big" to expand gun safety laws - but his words are riddled with enough ambiguity to warrant questions about his intent to follow through.
Before he left the White House on Wednesday to visit with victims and first responders in Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas, Trump told reporters that "there is no political appetite" for a ban on assault-style weapons, which were used in last weekend's two massacres.
But, he went on, expanding
