Michael Steele said Sunday that the Republican Party 'has become integrated into the business of guns and gun ownership.'
"talk around the issue." Capehart contended that GOP lawmakers should agree that"an 18-year-old shouldn't have a weapon of war."
"The party has become integrated into the business of guns and gun ownership. It is about the votes and the cash that are garnered from that affirmative defense of all things[National Rifle Association]," Steele, who chaired the RNC for two years from 2009 to 2011, responded. Former Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele knocked the GOP response to mass shootings during a Sunday interview with MSNBC. Above, Steele speaks with then Democratic National Committee chair Tom Perez ahead of the first Democratic presidential primary debate for the 2020 election on June 26, 2019 in Miami.Proponents of stricter gun laws often target the NRA—the most prominent gun rights advocacy group—and its influence on politics.
"The Republicans on this issue are unserious," Steele, a former lieutenant governor for Maryland, continued."They're not going to do anything to change the status quo," he said, dismissing ongoing talks on possible gun reform legislation touted by Republican leaders in
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