
Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Donald Trump Jr. Jacobs came out in support of banning assault weapons and other measures after gunman Payton Gendron killed 10 people in a Buffalo grocery store in May. “Being a father and having young children and visualizing what those parents are going through and, I guess, being able to feel it more personally certainly has had an impact as well,” he told The Buffalo News last week.

Jacobs - who has previously been supported by the NRA - has said that the carnage exhibited by the Buffalo attack pushed him to support restrictions that are now anathema to the vast majority of people in his party. He knows this but he can’t resist getting a few glowing headlines from the mainstream media,” Donald Trump, Jr. “’Republican’ already caved to the gun-grabbers whose proposals won’t do a single thing to protect our families & children from criminals & murderers. The embattled Erie congressman has incurred the wrath of of his party’s far right since saying last week he would support an assault weapons ban, raising the age to purchase semi-automatic rifles and limiting ammunition capacity in gun magazines. We did not endorse this Chris Jacobs … he’s actually to the left of Nancy Pelosi on this,” Conservative Party state Chair Gerard Kassar told the Post Thursday about his party withdrawing support for Jacobs’ reelection. Chris Jacobs for dead following his call for a federal ban on assault weapons in response to the massacre by an avowed white supremacist in Buffalo.

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