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Deep State Witch

(12,158 posts)
Thu Sep 4, 2025, 04:22 PM Thursday

DOJ is looking at ways to ban transgender Americans from owning guns

I look forward to the NRA fighting for the rights of transgender Americans to own guns.

In the wake of the Minneapolis Catholic church shooting, senior Justice Department officials are weighing proposals to limit transgender people’s right to possess firearms, according to two officials familiar with the internal discussions.

The talks, described as preliminary in nature, appear to build on an idea that has gained some currency in conservative media since the Minneapolis shooting that killed two children and injured 21, most of them children, at Annunciation Catholic Church, an attack that police say was carried out by a 23-year-old transgender woman.

Such a move would represent a dramatic escalation of the Trump administration’s fight against the rights of transgender Americans.

President Donald Trump has issued a series of executive orders on the topic, including one barring transgender people from serving in the military and another ordering federal prisons to move transgender inmates to facilities corresponding to their gender assigned at birth.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/04/politics/transgender-firearms-justice-department-second-amendment

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newdeal2

(3,842 posts)
3. I'd like to understand the argument they put forth
Thu Sep 4, 2025, 04:40 PM
Thursday

Because we can do the same thing and enact some real gun reform in the future.

But yes, the NRA should be very worried about this development. Trump is coming for your guns!

newdeal2

(3,842 posts)
14. Probably. But then we can declare MAGA as mentally ill
Thu Sep 4, 2025, 06:23 PM
Thursday

Which is probably not far from the truth.

SamKnause

(14,425 posts)
4. How many transgender mass shooters have there been ???
Thu Sep 4, 2025, 04:42 PM
Thursday

Isn't this the first one ???

Aren't they usually male white supremacists ???

Celerity

(51,772 posts)
5. March 27, 2023: a mass shooting occurred at The Covenant School, a Presbyterian Church in America parochial elementary
Thu Sep 4, 2025, 04:48 PM
Thursday

school in the Green Hills neighborhood of Nashville, Tennessee, when 28-year-old Aiden Hale (born Audrey Elizabeth Hale), a transgender man and former student of the school, killed three nine‑year‑old children and three adults before being shot and killed by two Metropolitan Nashville Police Department (MNPD) officers. It is the deadliest school shooting in Tennessee history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Nashville_school_shooting

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Grins

(8,799 posts)
9. "(Looking) forward to the NRA fighting for the rights of trans"
Thu Sep 4, 2025, 05:00 PM
Thursday

Perfect!!!!

Throw that into the face of the NRA and ask them if they TRULY believe the shit they vomit.

Even if (if, Gracie?) they don’t, like Republicans and abortion, D’s should stand up a faux group that will, using the exact same words the NRA has used in proliferating guns everywhere, take trans rights court to court to SCOTUS, just to watch them squirm.

If THE BLIND can have guns - so can trans!

jonstl08

(498 posts)
11. 2nd amendment
Thu Sep 4, 2025, 05:10 PM
Thursday

Unless they have committed a crime would this not violate their 2nd amendment rights. Wonder if the 2nd amendment right people would support them knowing how they are all over law abiding people having their 2nd amendment rights

Oeditpus Rex

(42,626 posts)
13. I'd love to hear their justification for this
Thu Sep 4, 2025, 05:59 PM
Thursday

in a federal court, not at some bullshit press conference.

If they're gonna try to make the case that transgender folks are mentally ill -- well, that'd open (or close, depending on how you look at it) a whole mess of doors, wouldn't it?

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