The death of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis is opening a new fault line between President Donald Trump and his conservative base as gun rights groups denounce what they say are a series of anti-Second Amendment statements justifying the shooting.
The Trump administration has faced withering GOP criticism after officials argued that Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse, presented a threat to immigration agents because he brought a lawfully obtained firearm to an ICE protest.
“We have talked to a number of people in the administration and asked them, WTF?” said Dudley Brown, the president of the National Association for Gun Rights.
Bystander footage of the shooting appears to show Pretti’s gun was not visible or drawn at a Saturday protest on the streets of Minneapolis and that
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