"Last month, in the wake of a mass shooting in Minneapolis that investigators say was carried out by a transgender woman, the Department of Justice began looking into ways to strip trans Americans of the right to bear arms. One senior Justice Department official told CNN that the goal is "to ensure that mentally ill individuals suffering from gender dysphoria are unable to obtain firearms while they are unstable and unwell.""
"Upon hearing the news about the internal D.O.J. discussions, the National Rifle Association issued a statement declaring its opposition to limiting the Second Amendment rights of any law-abiding citizen-though the N.R.A. did not explicitly name trans people. For even the most full-throated gun advocates, trans people are often the awkward exception: about a month before he was killed, Charlie Kirk, the conservative activist, called for a ban on trans gun ownership."
Following a Minneapolis mass shooting allegedly carried out by a transgender woman, the Department of Justice began exploring ways to strip trans Americans of the right to bear arms. A senior DOJ official said the goal is to prevent "mentally ill individuals suffering from gender dysphoria" from obtaining firearms while they are unstable and unwell. Federal law currently disqualifies only those involuntarily committed or declared legally incompetent from gun ownership. The National Rifle Association publicly opposed limiting Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens but did not explicitly name transgender people. Some conservative figures have openly called for banning trans gun ownership amid broader attacks on "gender ideology."
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