Trump DOJ is looking at ways to ban transgender Americans from owning guns, sources say | CNN Politics
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/04/politics/transgender-firearms-justice-department-second-amendment
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/04/politics/transgender-firearms-justice-department-second-amendment
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hector@lemmy.today · 25 pts · 336d
That would clearly be unconstitutional. Not that I trust the courts to recognize that fact at this moment in time. I suspect they cite some technicality to prevent it from being stopped completely while calling it unconstitutional.
I do not think the Federal district judges can even stop it now with the ban on Nationwide injunctions, I do not know how that would work in this case.
That was perhaps the worst decision the Supreme Court has ever made arguably. It will become clear in time just how bad of a decision that was.
aurelar@lemmy.ml · 13 pts · 335d
The people in favor of this law would probably try to file it under the mental illness category instead of using the simple fact that they're transgender.
hector@lemmy.today · 9 pts · 335d
That could be a tough sell for them now, to call everybody transgender mentally ill as a matter of course. The next logical step would be declaring all gay people mentally ill, then anyone with a fetish that is not very widespread, and so on.
The gun rights people have been tooled to support Republicans with slippery slope arguments. I do not think they would support this at this moment in time. The administration is testing the waters.
aurelar@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 334d
They always seem to be testing the waters. Razvedka boyem is standard operating practice for Trump and his ilk.
Zachariah@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 336d
“transgenders”?
transgender people
tehmics@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 335d
They're trying to take away their rights, I don't think they give a single fuck about proper terminology
can@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 335d
They know what they said
Edit: actually who did say it?
Archangel1313@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 335d
CobblerScholar@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 335d
The third I guess? But give it a minute
Soapbox@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 335d
I haven't read the article. But as soon as the news broke that the most recent shooter was trans, I assumed MAGAts would try to take away their guns, using "red flag laws" (the same laws they complain about because of potential abuse. We all know they are immune to irony.)
mentalNothing@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 335d
Why the daily wire? Is there no other source for this you could link?