Wallace to Gov. Abbott: Whether Expanding Background Checks or Red Flag Laws, Is There Anything You’d Accept?

RUSH EXCERPT:

WALLACE: “Governor, is there any gun control, any limits on guns that you would accept?”

ABBOTT: “Let me mention a couple things. One is I think there is no acceptable way that a president by executive order can infringe upon Second Amendment rights or alter Second Amendment rights. Second, if the president wanted to do something more than show — if the president really wanted to do something substantively, what he could do by executive order is to eliminate the backlog of complaints that have already been filed about gun crimes that have taken place. You probably know what Nick says, the check organization. Back in 2018 they receive 122,000 complaints about people providing false information when they tried to buy a gun. They sent those to the ATF. The ATF sent 12,000 — this is important. They sent 12,000 on two U.S. Attorneys, U.S. Attorneys prosecuted 12. Here’s my point, by executive action, the president could cut down on gun crimes if all he did was tell his executive branch to start prosecuting the gun crimes that have already been sent to the federal government.”