Senior officials at the U.S. Department of Justice have held multiple meetings in recent days to consider a possible federal ban of transgender individuals from owning firearms.
Multiple sources familiar with the matter, including one official inside the DOJ, confirmed that the Office of Legal Council (OLC)—which advises the Attorney General on legal matters—has held several such meetings since the tragic shooting, allegedly by a transgendered individual, that killed 2 children at a Minneapolis Catholic school and injured 21 others.
This legal question of banning firearm ownership for transgendered individuals would focus on whether these people suffering from gender dysphoria are in fact mentally ill and therefore should be denied firearm ownership while they are unstable and unwell.
It would be a major escalation to see the federal government curtail Second Amendment protections for a big group of people, but in the case of transgendered people it is a place that many believe makes sense, which is why some top conservatives, such as Turning Point USA’s Charlie Kirk, have said the government should do this.
“If you are crazy enough to want to hormonally and surgically ‘change your sex,’ you have a mental disorder, and you are too crazy to own a firearm,” he said.
A source inside DOJ revealed, “Democrats have called for common sense gun laws for a long time – this seems pretty common sense to me,” a source inside DOJ revealed.
While any decision is not yet final, the fact these meetings are happening seems to suggest there may be movement inside the Justice Department under Attorney General Pam Bondi towards taking some kind of step here.
Vice President JD Vance visited Minneapolis to meet with families of the children the transgender shooter murdered last week, and with the recovering victims who lived.
Vance’s opponent in last year’s election, the 2024 Democrat nominee for Vice President and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, has made Minnesota a “trans refuge.” Walz has in the aftermath of the shooting called for more gun control generally, and Vance said in response that people want to stop the shootings that keep happening.
“I’m not going to tell the Minnesota lawmakers or the governor exactly how they should respond to this tragedy. I think that…there’s a strong desire from across the political spectrum to do something so that these shootings are less common,” Vance said.
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