Prominent Republicans and gun rights advocates helped elicit a White House turnabout this week after bristling over the administration’s characterization of Alex Pretti, the second person killed this month by a federal officer in Minneapolis, as responsible for his own death because he lawfully possessed a weapon.

The president’s comments merged online speculation with documented concerns about one of America’s most popular handguns, SIG Sauer’s P320.

Minnesota allows individuals with a permit to carry a gun in public, concealed or not, and there is no state law against having a gun while at a demonstration. That contradicts FBI Director Kash Patel's claim suggesting that "you cannot bring" a loaded firearm "to any sort of protest” in the state.

The Trump administration didn’t have a whole lot to work with after a federal officer shot and killed someone again this weekend in Minneapolis.

Pretti was legally carrying a gun that was never drawn before he was fatally shot by a Border Patrol agent Saturday.

Federal officials suggested that carrying a firearm is inherently threatening and an invitation to police violence.

Claims by Trump administration officials that the man fatally shot by a federal agent in Minneapolis lacked a right to possess a firearm and that his killing was justified are being dismissed by legal experts and assailed by gun rights groups ordinarily aligned with the president.

The National Rifle Association and others have argued citizens need guns to fend off government. The killing of Alex Jeffrey Pretti, who carried a pistol, set off debate.

Gun owners have different views on Trump's immigration operations in Minneapolis but they agree: Alex Pretti had a right to be armed at the protest.

The video shows a federal officer searching Pretti's body after shots were fired, believing he still had a gun.