Senate Republicans handed President Biden a huge win with the nation’s first new federal gun-control law in decades, but the bipartisan deal and its tighter restrictions on firearms remain hugely unpopular across much of the GOP.
Former President Donald Trump decried the new gun laws as an authoritarian assault on Second Amendment rights.
He also heaped blame upon Senate Minority Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, for orchestrating the Democrats’ gun win.
“Instead of taking guns away from law-abiding Americans, we should try taking them away from the gangs, the cartels, and the violent criminals,” Mr. Trump said at a “Save America Rally” on Saturday in Mendon, Illinois.