Just weeks before the shooting in Orlando, Gary Johnson was in the city securing the Libertarian Party's presidential nomination. "The Republicans walk the NRA line and refuse even limited restrictions," Trump wrote in "The America We Deserve," his 2000 policy manifesto. Johnson, who served as governor of New Mexico from 1995 to 2003, had always run as a friend of gun rights. Johnson dropped the topic, but gun rights became a flash point when he tapped Weld as a running mate. Restricting Americans’ gun rights doesn’t make us safer, and threatens our constitutional freedoms.

Source: Washington Post June 12, 2016 20:17 UTC