--- title: Donald Trump at the NRA: GOP Hopeful Talks Guns description: Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump will address the National Rifle Association (NRA) Friday afternoon at its annual conference. canonical: https://time.com/4342985/donald-trump-nra-speech-guns/ author: Tessa Berenson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-05-20T15:57:14.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T17:43:06.162Z article:section: Politics og:title: Donald Trump at the NRA: GOP Hopeful Talks Guns og:description: Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump will address the National Rifle Association (NRA) Friday afternoon at its annual conference. og:url: https://time.com/4342985/donald-trump-nra-speech-guns/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Donald Trump at the NRA: GOP Hopeful Talks Guns twitter:description: Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump will address the National Rifle Association (NRA) Friday afternoon at its annual conference. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Live: Donald Trump Speaks to the NRA  by [Tessa Berenson](/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson May 20, 2016 3:57 PM CUT  by [Tessa Berenson](/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson May 20, 2016 3:57 PM CUT Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump will address the National Rifle Association (NRA) Friday afternoon at its annual conference. Trump has been inconsistent in his positions on gun control from before and after he became a presidential candidate. In his book _The America We Deserve_ from 2000, Trump wrote that he supported a ban on assault weapons and a longer waiting period to purchase a gun, [ABC reports](http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trumps-views-guns-shifted-time/story?id=39234442 "undefined"). But the businessman has tacked far to the right during his run for president, saying he would [end gun-free zones](http://time.com/4091988/republican-debate-donald-trump-guns/?iid=sr-link1 "undefined") and often saying that terror attacks like the ones in San Bernardino or Paris [could have been prevented](http://time.com/4113333/paris-attacks-donald-trump/?iid=sr-link2 "undefined") if the civilians were armed. In his Friday speech, Trump will likely continue boosting the Second Amendment to reassure the crowd and cast himself as tough on terrorism. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4342985/donald-trump-nra-speech-guns/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4342985/donald-trump-nra-speech-guns/"},"headline":"Watch Live: Donald Trump Speaks to the NRA","datePublished":"2016-05-20T15:57:14.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T17:43:06.162Z","description":"It's the gun lobby group's annual conference","url":"https://time.com/4342985/donald-trump-nra-speech-guns/","keywords":["Donald Trump","2016 Election topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tessa Berenson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/donald-trump/","name":"Donald Trump"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4342985/donald-trump-nra-speech-guns/","name":"Watch Live: Donald Trump Speaks to the NRA"}}]}] ```