DOJ Reported to Be Weighing Limiting Transgender Access to Firearms

Newsweek

Senior officials in President Donald Trump‘s administration have reportedly considered proposals to restrict transgender Americans from owning firearms.

Justice Department officials have discussed restricting the sale of guns to transgender people in the wake of the Minneapolis Catholic school shooting after the suspect was said to be transgender, according to anonymous sources who spoke with CNN and The Washington Post.

The reports have sparked a backlash online, with one Democratic congressional candidate in Illinois calling the potential move an “overtly discriminatory civil rights violation.” More

20 Comments on DOJ Reported to Be Weighing Limiting Transgender Access to Firearms

  1. This is beautiful! Lefty gun control nuts won’t know whether to shit or go blind and will end up doing both.

    2A people (I’m one) should sit back, relax, pour an adult beverage, and dig in to the popcorn.

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  2. If they can grab guns out of the hands of veterans, why can’t they take them from transgenders?

    Maybe we can get democrats to all ban pink rifles and any other firearms that have a gay quality to them. I mean it would be based on the same thinking that they used to pass legislation banning assault “style” weapons. Because they looked dangerous, they must be dangerous. Well, pink guns of any sort look more deadly to me now.

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  3. I’m not exactly on board with this idea as it could enable a future administration to decide that a group they disagree with could be denied the Constitutional right to own arms also.
    I see this as a very slippery slope and a Pandora’s box that may be better off unopened.

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  4. Very bad idea. Why not encourage every one else to get armed. Politicians continue to not understand the 2A. If you want to drop crime and violence down to almost zero, issue everyone a gun.

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  5. Medical Card and Gun Ownership
    Under federal law, possessing a medical marijuana card makes you a prohibited person, and you cannot legally purchase or possess a firearm. Should be no problem restricting someone that thinks they are a different sex and are on mind/body altering drugs. And just plain crazy.

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  6. @JDHasty, back in the early days of IOTW we had a member named Peter Bocking who was a Brit, and his screen name was Peter UK or PUK. His favorite saying was ‘Make those bastards live by their own rules’!

    Long Live PUK

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