Source: Reason
by Jacob Sullum
“Multiple news outlets reported in September 2025 that the Justice Department was weighing a ban on gun possession by transgender people, on the theory that they are ‘mentally ill’ and therefore ‘unstable.’ That constitutionally dubious proposal provoked objections from gun rights groups that typically align with the Trump administration, including the National Rifle Association (NRA). … the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit held that ‘nothing in our tradition allows disarmament simply because [someone] belongs to a category of people’ that ‘Congress has categorically deemed dangerous.’ Such a ban would be even more constitutionally questionable if it were imposed by bureaucratic fiat.” (for publication 01/26)
https://reason.com/2025/12/09/gun-groups-oppose-trans-firearm-ban/