Senior Justice Department officials are considering proposals to restrict gun ownership rights for transgender people following the Minneapolis Catholic church shooting, two officials familiar with the discussions told CNN .

The talks are still preliminary, the network reported but reflect an idea circulating in conservative media since the attack at Annunciation Catholic Church, where police say a 23-year-old transgender woman, Robin Westman, killed two children and wounded 21 others, most of them children.

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