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Republicans to implement gun ownership restrictions? Yes. Read on ... [View all]

Trump DOJ is looking at ways to ban transgender Americans from owning guns, sources say
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/04/politics/transgender-firearms-justice-department-second-amendment

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.

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