President Trump met with N.R.A. officials at the White House Thursday following a week in which he vacillated between emphatically supporting gun rights and being open to various gun control proposals from raising age limits, to a bump stock ban, to expanded background checks, to seizing guns from potentially dangerous people without due process. Following the meeting, Trump tweeted “Good (Great) meeting in the Oval Office tonight with the NRA!” and N.R.A. spokesman Chris Cox, tweeted “…POTUS & VPOTUS support the Second Amendment, support strong due process and don’t want gun control.” suggesting that the First Ear had been bent ... Log in to view full article.