Donald Trump Says Gun Rights People Could Stop Hillary Clinton's Court Picks

Donald Trump on Tuesday seemed to suggest that gun owners take matters into their own hands should Hillary Clinton be elected president and start picking Supreme Court justices.

Trump was riffing on the Second Amendment when he started drifting into the subject of Supreme Court picks. That's when he said this:

"If she gets to pick her judges — nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is. I don't know."

Here are his full remarks in context:

As with a lot of Trump's utterances at these rallies, where he uses language that tends to devolve into stream-of-conscious ramblings, deciphering his meaning was just difficult enough to alarm some people.

Maybe Trump was just joking — as he said he was when he suggested that Russia conduct a cyber attack on State Department emails.

A lot of people, though, interpreted his comments as a direct threat toward Clinton or the judges.

"A person seeking to be the President of the United States should not suggest violence in any way," Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook said in a statement.

Even one of Trump's supporters seemed to think he may have crossed the line:

In a statement titled "Trump Campaign Statement On Dishonest Media," campaign spokesman Jason Miller said Trump was just talking about the influence of Second Amendment groups like the NRA.

"It's called the power of unification — 2nd Amendment people have amazing spirit and are tremendously unified, which gives them great political power," Miller's statement read. "And this year, they will be voting in record numbers, and it won't be for Hillary Clinton, it will be for Donald Trump."

The NRA, in a tweet, said "@RealDonaldTrump is right."