Trump backs away from urging Congress to boost purchasing age for guns

President Trump appears to have backed away from his request that Congress raise the minimum purchasing age for semi-automatic guns to 21, suggesting it would be better to let individual states decide.

“Conceptually, he still supports raising the age to 21. But he also knows there’s not a lot of broad support for that. I think he thinks it would probably have more potential in the states than it would at the federal level,” White House press secretary Sarah Sanders told reporters Friday morning, hours after Trump dined with National Rifle Association executives at the White House.