President Trump and Kash Patel are facing criticism from gun groups. ( Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
"You cannot bring a firearm loaded with multiple magazines to any sort of protest that you want. It’s that simple. You don’t have the right to break the law and incite violence," Patel said during an appearance on Fox News.
"You can’t have guns. You can’t walk in with guns," Trump said to reporters at the White House on Tuesday.
White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller came under heavier fire after claiming that Pretti was a "domestic terrorist" and "would-be assassin" who "tried to murder federal law enforcement."
A card with images of Renée Good and Alex Pretti lies among flowers and other mementos at a memorial in Minneapolis, Minn., on Jan. 27, 2026. On Jan. 24, federal agents shot and killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse, while scuffling with him on an icy roadway in Minneapolis, less than three weeks after an immigration officer fired on Renee Good, also 37, killing her in her car. The fatal shootings has reignited accusations that federal agents enforcing US President Donald Trump's militarized immigration crackdown are inexperienced, under-trained and operating outside law enforcement norms. (Octavio Jones/AFP via Getty Images)
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The move is standard procedure and should not be viewed as any suspicion of wrongdoing, the Department of Homeland Security said. The agents are no longer on field duty, for now.
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