Trump shared images of the gun that immigration officials said was recovered and said: “What is that all about? Where are the local Police? Why weren’t they allowed to protect ICE Officers?”

Note that these are the same Republicans who have lectured us for decades about people’s right to carry guns legally.

Also, the image they circulated seems to have been on the internet for a while. It’s not this man’s gun:

EDIT: I have been unable to confirm this last claim, or that the image search results below are real. The source of the search results image is this Threads post.

That 5 days ago link is just a weekly discussion thread that was made 5 days ago. The gun image was posted in the thread after the shooting.