White House Vows to Help Arm Teachers and Backs off Raising Age for Buying Guns

The White House on Sunday vowed to help provide “rigorous firearms training” to some schoolteachers and formally endorsed a bill to tighten the federal background checks system, but it backed off President Trump’s earlier call to raise the minimum age to purchase some guns to 21 years old from 18 years old.

"White House Vows to Help Arm Teachers and Backs off Raising Age for Buying Guns" is from the March 12, 2018 Politics section of The Washington Post. It was written by Philip Rucker and narrated by Sam Scholl.