Senior Justice Department officials in the Trump administration are mulling a weapons ban that would single out transgender Americans.
The proposal would limit transgender people’s right to possess firearms, two officials familiar with the internal discussions told CNN.
The discussions, first reported by the Daily Wire, are using last week’s deadly church shooting in Minneapolis as a launch point, the officials told the outlet.
The horrific event that killed two children and injured 21 at Annunciation Catholic Church was carried out by 23-year-old Robin Westman, who is reported to have been born male but identified as a woman.
Right-wing influencers were quick to assert that Westman’s motive to kill stemmed from being trans, and now the Trump administration appears to be using that as an escalation of the administration’s attacks on transgender Americans.
In 2023, the Gun Violence Archive found that of all mass shootings over the previous decade, only 0.11% had been carried out by transgender suspects.
The White House and the National Rifle Association did no immediately respond to request for comment.
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