Trump previously expressed support for a ban on assault weapons in the Nineties and early Noughties.

“I generally oppose gun control, but I support the ban on assault weapons and I support a slightly longer waiting period to purchase a gun,” he wrote in his 2000 book, The America We Deserve.

Whether he will be persuaded to come back around to his initial way of thinking and address gun control laws remains to be seen. What has been made abundantly clear, however, is his stance on abortion: he is currently backing the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which is going to a Senate vote on Tuesday (3 October).

If successful, the new bill will allow abortion past 20 weeks only in cases of rape, incest or when the life of the mother is at stake.

And this isn’t the only example of Trump’s anti-abortion stance affecting his policies: just days after being sworn in as president, Donald Trump reinstated a global gag order that bans US-funded groups around the world from providing – or even talking to women about – safe abortions.

His administration, likewise, is currently doing its best to defund Planned Parenthood.

Imagine a world where it’s as hard to get a gun as it is an abortion