The GOP presidential candidate has said in the past that he has a concealed carry permit and often carries a gun

Had Donald J Trump been around when ISIS attacked Paris, he says he would have 'opened fire.'

'I always have a gun on me,' he reportedly told French magazine Valleurs Actuelles as he made the case for loosened regulations on firearms.

France has strict gun laws and no right to bear arms for its citizens. The U.S. presidential candidate has more than once suggested the laws there be changed there and elsewhere so that victims of such attacks are able to defend themselves.

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WATCH OUT ISIS: Had Donald J Trump been around when ISIS attacked Paris, he says he would have 'opened fire'

PACKING HEAT?: 'I always have a gun on me,' he reportedly told French magazine Valleurs Actuelles as he made the case for loosened regulations on firearms.

A spokeswoman for Trump did not respond to DailyMail.com's email asking for confirmation that the Secret Service officers protecting the White House candidate - seen here surrounding him - allow him to pack heat on the stump and take guns on his jet, for that matter

After the Charlie Hebdo massacre in January of 2015, Trump tweeted, 'If the people so violently shot down in Paris had guns, at least they would have had a fighting chance.'

'Isn't it interesting that the tragedy in Paris too place in one of the toughest gun control countries in the world?'

'Remember, when guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns!'' he said in a third tweet.

In an interview this month that ran in Valleurs Actuelles, Trump referenced the November terrorist attack on Paris and said, 'Do you really think that if there were people in the crowd, who were armed and trained, things would have turned out the same way?'

'I don't think so. They would have killed the terrorists. It makes sense,' he said.

The GOP front-runner for president then declared: 'I always have a gun on me. I can tell you that if I had been in the Bataclan or in the cafes I would have opened fire.'

'I may have been killed, but I would have drawn,' he said, according to The Local, a website that curates news from France.

Trump went on to talk about how Paris and France are not what they used to be, and 'there are areas where you have the impression that they are outside the law... that there are some lost territories of the Republic.'

He said, 'French friends tell me they sometimes no longer feel at home in their country.'

A spokeswoman for Trump did not respond to DailyMail.com's email asking for confirmation that the Secret Service officers protecting the White House candidate allow him to pack heat on the stump and take guns on his jet, for that matter.

At an October presidential debate Trump said, 'I do carry on occasion -- sometimes a lot...but I like to be unpredictable.'

That was before he was granted Secret Service protection, however.

Trump is seen here holding a replica flintlock rifle awarded him by cadets during the Republican Society Patriot Dinner at the Citadel Military College last February in Charleston, South Carolina. He's said in the past he also owns a 'H&K .45 and a .38 Smith & Wesson'

Several years ago he gave an interview in which he confirmed that he has a 'carry permit - I’ve said that publicly' - and told Emily Miller, then of the Washington Times, 'I own a couple of different guns, but I don’t talk about it.'

Trump revealed to her that he owned an 'H&K .45 and a .38 Smith & Wesson.'

Speaking about the Aurora, Colorado, movie theater shooting, Trump told her, 'If some of the people in the movie theater had a gun, they’d have been shooting at him. Nobody had a gun so they were totally defenseless.'

Miller arrived at the determination after the conversation that Trump was 'a true Second Amendment enthusiast.