MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace: ‘Is Donald Trump Doing Any Rethinking About His Views on the Weapons that Have Been Used in Both of Those Incidents?’

Wallace: “So, Donald Trump — someone has attempted to assassinate Donald Trump twice using an AR-15. Is Donald Trump doing any rethinking about his views on the weapons that have been used in both of those incidents?”

HILLYARD: “It’s a question worth posing to Donald Trump at some point. The press have been able to get some questions to him recently. And of course, there’s maybe going to be another presidential debate. We have seen Donald Trump suggest when he was in the White House, after the likes of the Parkland shooting, suggesting that he would seek to have some sort of gun control reform. That never actually transpired or took place. Instead, he stood by the NRA and said that they had effectively what they needed. They did through, push through an executive order, an attempt to ban bump stocks. In terms of assault weapons, he has not sided with putting on a ban on semiautomatic weapons. Donald Trump has continually gone to the NRA convention pretty much every year, have been to several of them alongside of him. For Donald Trump, I think that there’s little reason to believe that he’ll change his tenor. He’s — we’ve lived through multiple mass shootings now. Of course, there’s a question of whether the potential effort to take his own life, what changes decision or view on this. But that’s something that, at least from Donald Trump’s own mouth, we haven’t heard at this time.”