NRA Comes Out Against Reported Trump DOJ Plan to Restrict Gun Rights for Transgender People

Sarah Rumpf Sep 5th, 2025, 5:22 pm

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The National Rifle Association posted a statement Friday opposing any “sweeping gun bans that arbitrarily strip law-abiding citizens of their Second Amendment rights without due process,” later clarifying that it had intended to oppose a reported plan by President Donald Trump’s administration to ban transgender people from owning guns.

The Department of Justice is reviewing ways to designate transgender people as mentally ill as a justification for restricting their rights to own, possess, and use guns, CNN reported on Thursday. The move comes in the wake of a shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota

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