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  • 2022-05-25 (xsd:date)
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  • Secret Service: Guns Banned at Trump's NRA Speech in Texas (en)
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  • On May 25, 2022, progressive political commentator Brian Tyler Cohen tweeted, Guns are banned at the NRA convention in Texas this weekend when Trump speaks. Let that sink in. We found that this was a true statement, as it was announced that the U.S. Secret Service was set to take over control of the room for the NRA event when former U.S. President Donald Trump was scheduled to speak. The convention, formally known as the National Rifle Association Annual Meeting (NRA AM), was set to begin on May 27 inside the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas. The tweet was posted in the aftermath of the deadly shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, which is also located in Texas. On May 24, three days before the convention was set to begin, a gunman took the lives of at least 19 children and two adults before he also was killed by a Border Patrol agent who responded to the scene. A report from NPR.org linked to the NRA convention website, which confirmed that guns would be banned during the event that included Trump's speech. It showed that the former president's address would be happening on on May 27, sometime between 2:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. in the Central time zone: According to a separate flyer linked to on the page, a number of items in addition to guns were banned by the U.S. Secret Service, specifically during the event that included Trump's NRA speech: The list showed the following products: aerosols, ammunition, backpacks, bags larger than 18x13x7, drones and other unmanned aircraft systems, firearms, glass/thermal/metal containers, gun parts, holsters, knives, laser pointers, mace/pepper spray, magazines, selfie sticks, signs, toy guns, umbrellas, weapons of any kind, and any other item determined to be potential safety hazards. In sum, yes, guns were banned during Trump's NRA speech in May 2022, as the U.S. Secret Service had control of the event, which it involved the presence of a former president. (en)
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