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How to strip any group's gun rights
Los Angeles Times
|September 10, 2025
The president's Justice Department is now aiming to label all trans people as 'mentally ill,' potentially barring them from purchasing firearms
Given that the NRA and other groups shot the Justice Department’s trial balloon out of the sky, it will probably go nowhere, not least because the move is wildly unconstitutional.
So why pay it anymore attention?
For starters, whatever one thinks about transgenderism, or even the concept of “trans-terrorism” as pushed by the administration and various MAGA influencers, the idea that the executive branch can unilaterally deprive a class of people — no matter how disfavored — of a constitutional right is worth notice.
For those who are hostile to gun rights, this point should still be obvious. Just replace the 2nd Amendment with the 1st. Can the president announce that trans people — or Muslims, Catholics, et al. — no longer have the right to speak or worship freely?
This story is from the September 10, 2025 edition of Los Angeles Times.
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