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Donald Trump jumped on Twitter on Monday in an apparent effort to soothe top officials at the National Rifle Assn. who said some of his statements after the Orlando, Fla., nightclub shooting were too radical.

The presumptive GOP nominee said last week that had clubgoers carried firearms, they could have gunned down Omar Mateen, who shot to death 49 people in the deadliest shooting massacre in modern U.S. history.

"If some of those wonderful people had guns strapped right here ... and one of the people in that room happened to have it and goes 'boom, boom,' you know, that would have been a beautiful sight, folks," Trump said at a rally in Houston.

He backtracked after top NRA officials said they vigorously disagreed with Trump's stance.

“When I said that if, within the Orlando club, you had some people with guns, I was obviously talking about additional guards or employees,” Trump tweeted.

A poll last week showed that 61% of Americans want tighter gun control following the shooting, and a survivor told CNN that more guns would have caused more chaos.

“It would have been more of a disaster,” Samuel Maldonado said Monday on CNN’s “New Day.” “... I don’t think it would have been a good idea.”