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National Rifle Association counters Trump on carrying gun at protest

The National Rifle Association pushed back Tuesday on President Donald Trump's claims that Alex Pretti was wrong to bring a firearm to the anti-ICE protest where he was killed.Trump and FBI Director Kash Patel argued that Americans "cannot" bring firearms to a protest this week. The NRA has vocally defended Pretti, however. The Veterans Affairs nurse was armed at the time of his killing, and he owned a permit for the firearm."The NRA unequivocally believes that all law-abiding citizens have a right to keep and bear arms anywhere they have a legal right to be," the NRA wrote in a post on X.The...