BREAKING: Trump DOJ Deliberates Over Gun Ban For Transgenders

WASHINGTON — In the wake of the latest deadly attack on a school by a transgender-identifying individual, President Donald Trump’s Justice Department is considering blocking trans-identifying people from buying firearms, The Daily Wire has learned.

“Individuals within the DOJ are reviewing ways to ensure that mentally ill individuals suffering from gender dysphoria are unable to obtain firearms while they are unstable and unwell,” one source inside the Justice Department told the Daily Wire.

The DOJ’s discussions center on the fact that those who identify as transgender suffer from gender dysphoria, a mental disorder, the DOJ source familiar with the conversations shared with The Daily Wire. Gender dysphoria describes the sense of unease that a man or woman may feel if he or she thinks that their biological sex is mismatched with their so-called gender identity.

A DOJ spokesman would not comment on specific measures being considered, but said that a “range of options” is on the table.

“Under Attorney General Bondi’s leadership this Department of Justice is actively considering a range of options to prevent mentally unstable individuals from committing acts of violence, especially at schools,” the spokesman said.

Given the rise in transgender violence over the past decade, particularly aimed at school children, many on the right have argued that authorities should be taking a much closer look at the warning signs exhibited by transgender shooters.

Last week’s deadly shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis, in which trans-identifying shooter Robin Westman killed two children and injured many more, has prompted calls from the right to investigate transgender domestic terrorism. The Daily Wire reported this week that the White House’s draft national security strategy on domestic terrorism will specifically address transgender violence.

US Department of Justice (DOJ) headquarters building on January 20, 2024, in Washington, DC. (Photo by J. David Ake/Getty Images)

Westman’s actions came only two years after another trans-identifying killer, this one a woman who identified as a man, targeted Christian school children in Nashville. One week later, leaders of Catholic and independent schools in Minnesota had called on Governor Tim Walz to help prevent similar shootings, as The Daily Wire reported earlier this week.

They feared that the next shooter would target one of their schools, but the security funding was never authorized. That same year, Walz was working to protect trans-identifying people, signing legislation establishing Minnesota as a “trans refuge,” and promising to “protect those seeking gender-affirming care.”

On Tuesday, Walz shared that he is talking to legislators about calling a special session to address gun violence, telling CBS News: “The things that make America unique in terms of shootings is we just have more guns and the wrong kinds of guns that are on the streets.”

The fact that the DOJ is considering blocking trans-identifying individuals from owning guns suggests that the Justice Department views the situation very differently. A review by The Daily Wire found that the Annunciation school shooting and the Covenant Christian school shooting are just two examples of a steady stream of transgender-related violence over the past decade.

“Democrats have called for common sense gun laws for a long time,” the DOJ official shared on Thursday, adding, “This seems pretty common sense to me.”

The move would undoubtedly infuriate those on the left who believe that men can become women and women can become men — and that people who identify as transgender are not mentally ill but merely living in the wrong body. These critics argue that transgender identification is irrelevant when discussing school shootings and that even discussing the topic puts trans-identifying people in danger and should be off limits.

In recent years, doctors, therapists, activists, and even President Joe Biden’s administration have argued that people experiencing gender dysphoria will benefit from so-called “gender-affirming care” — transgender surgeries, hormones, and puberty blockers — claiming that these gender dysphoric people are more likely to kill themselves if they don’t receive such “care.” Opponents of these measures, including young people who underwent the procedures as teenagers like Chloe Cole, argue that “gender-affirming care” does not mitigate the distress that gender dysphoric people have, but actually often exacerbates mental health issues.

Democrats like Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey have criticized “HATE being directed at our trans community” in the wake of last week’s shooting, claiming that “anybody who is using this as an opportunity to villainize our trans community or any other community out there, has lost their sense of common humanity.”

Sebastian Gorka, deputy assistant to President Donald Trump and senior director for counterterrorism, argued on CNN earlier this week that there was an ideological component to the Annunciation school shooting.

“What we should do is we should look at the early warning signals, the signs,” he told CNN’s Brianna Keilar. “We should be providing off-ramps, we should be providing mental health options for these individuals.”

“I find it hard to believe that an individual goes from getting his mother to sign a change of name certificate, age 17, and then just a handful of years later is mowing down innocent children in a church pew during a Catholic mass, and nobody realized there was a problem,” Gorka argued. “That is what we have to address to save the next children from the next atrocity. It’s not about the sexual proclivities of the individual, it’s the fact that nobody seems to notice a very disturbing pattern towards violence.”