Trump messes up by posing with a 'Glock' pistol and saying he wants to buy it: has he violated his parole and could he go to jail?

The former president of the United States, Donald Trump (2017-2019) has been in the spotlight with his latest electoral strategy. This Monday, in order to recruit new votes, he decided to go to a gun store in South Carolina to purchase a Glock model semi-automatic pistol.

However, this movement could play with the rights of the presidential candidate since, in his case, the possession of weapons is a crime when he is on parole.

Therefore, minutes after his campaign spokesman, Steven Cheung, posted a video on X (formerly Twitter) in which Trump is seen contemplating the gun and declaring that he wanted to buy it, the publication was deleted. It also stated that the candidate had acquired the weapon.

The spokesperson later made statements to CNN in which he assured that, in the end, the former president had not purchased the weapon, as The Post Courier reporter Caitlyn Byrd clarified in another X post, where she makes it clear that “Trump *NOT * bought a gun. He looked at them. There is a difference”.

Byrd then republished a post clarifying: “I did not see Trump purchase this gun, or any other, during his stop at the Palmetto State Armory, but he did ask questions and look at three different firearms.”

Alayna Tenne, a CNN reporter, shortly after attached another publication in which she expressed a message similar to that of her colleague.

Could I go to jail?

Currently, the former president is out on bail after being indicted on 13 counts by the Georgia jury last August for attempting to manipulate the results of the 2020 elections in the state.

In 1968, after the assassinations of US President John Kennedy, Attorney General Robert Kennedy and Dr.. Martin Luther King, the country enacted the Gun Control Act, which established a new license and stricter regulation, which includes, among other things, a category of “unauthorized persons.”

This category details in its first section that “any person who “has been convicted in court of a crime sentenced to imprisonment for a period of more than one year” cannot legally receive or possess firearms or ammunition, a condition that meets the former president Donald Trump.

Therefore, if the candidate had purchased the Glock pistol with which he sparked the controversy, he could face new legal problems with the justice system, since he would have acted against the law.