Ahead of a Monday campaign rally in Summerville, South Carolina, former president Donald Trump stopped to visit Palmetto State Armory, the firearm store that supplied the AR-15 style rifle a racist gunman used to fatally shoot three Black people in Florida late last month.
As Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Will Bunch noted, though it was falsely reported that the former president purchased a firearm during his visit, the armory did sell the weapon to the Jacksonville shooter, whose previous hold in state custody for mental health issues should have disqualified him from being able to purchase a firearm under Florida's Baker Act.
