The Trump administration is reportedly considering an effort to ban transgender people from owning guns despite the Second Amendment protection of the right to bear arms.

After the recent Minneapolis Catholic school shooting that was blamed on a trans woman, Department of Justice officials are considering legal options to declare transgender people as mentally ill and therefore unfit to carry firearms, CNN reported on Thursday.

The report, which called the discussions preliminary, said one option would be to use President Donald Trump’s order barring trans people from serving in the military as a template for gun restrictions.

The goal would be “to ensure that mentally ill individuals suffering from gender dysphoria are unable to obtain firearms while they are unstable and unwell,” a Ju

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