Newly appointed White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci has posted his support for stringent gun-control laws – a position that would be at odds with President Trump’s views.

“I have always been for strong gun control laws,” Scaramucci tweeted after the December 2012 shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., in which 20 kids were gunned down.

In August 2012, he tweeted: “We (the USA) has 5% of the world’s population but 50% of the world’s guns. Enough is enough. It is just common sense it apply more controls.”

Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, posted a Scaramucci tweet from August 2012 and wrote: “Weirdly these are being deleted! But the Internet is forever, Anthony Scaramucci.”

Anthony Scaramucci: I bought you a @MomsDemand t-shirt and sending invite to next DC chapter meeting. Help us kill silencer and CCR bills. pic.twitter.com/ZYI8NUdsVT

— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) July 21, 2017

Watts told the Washington Times that his old statements “underscore recent national polling data: Gun violence prevention is not a partisan issue.”

“A vast majority of Americans — including gun owners, NRA members and Republicans — overwhelmingly support common-sense gun laws,” she said.