“I want to buy one” – Trump handled custom “Trump 45” Glock gun at Palmetto State Armory in Summerville, South Carolina and got deleted by Steven Cheung.
Donald Trump’s playbook every time he flies in for a rally or even during this campaign is to stop off at a restaurant where he hands out a few food items to the cultists who fawn over him.
It was a little surprising today, though, when he stopped in at a gun shop to purchase a Glock pistol with his face etched onto the side of it. He told his aides twice, “I want to buy this gun.”
“I wanna buy one,” Trump said while taking a tour of Palmetto State Armory, a federally licensed gun dealer in South Carolina that’s widely revered by firearm enthusiasts.
“Sir, if you want one, this one’s yours,” a person on the tour said, seeming to divert the president away from making an actual purchase.
“No, I wanna buy one,” Trump insisted.
It only added to the fiasco when those present pulled South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson into the photo op—as well as his brother, Julian Wilson, an executive at the private equity company that owns the gun dealer. They are both Republican Congressman Joe Wilson’s sons.
But the campaign went into damage control mode as soon as firearms journalist Stephen Gutowski and others pointed out that the entire transaction would be blatantly illegal.
“Did he actually go through with the purchase?” Gutowski asked openly in tweet.
18 U.S.C. 922(d)(1) makes it a crime for anyone to sell a firearm to a person under felony indictment:
Section 922(d)(1) makes it unlawful to sell or otherwise dispose of a firearm to a person who “is under indictment for, or has been convicted in any court of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year.”
18 U.S.C. 922(n) makes it a crime to for a person under indictment to either ship or transport a firearm from one place to another, or to receive any firearm which has been shipped in interestate commerce:
(n)
It shall be unlawful for any person who is under indictment for a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year to ship or transport in interstate or foreign commerce any firearm or ammunition or receive any firearm or ammunition which has been shipped or transported in interstate or foreign commerce.
The first question is, did he actually buy the gun? The reason why we have to ask this is that he has, on more than one occasion, loudly proclaimed that he was buying food for people only to have them later report that it was never actually paid for by Trump or his campaign.
Trump campaign guy who filmed the video of Trump saying he wanted to buy the gun quickly deleted it. Thankfully, the NRA screen recorded it for us.
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