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BumRushDaShow

(160,061 posts)
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 02:57 PM Sep 5

Even the NRA is against Trump team plan to ban trans people from owning firearms

Source: The Independent

Friday 05 September 2025 13:05 EDT


News of a potential plan from Donald Trump’s administration to block transgender Americans from owning firearms was met with an avalanche of opposition — including from major Second Amendment groups historically aligned with Republicans.

The National Rifle Association, among the nation’s largest and most influential lobbying groups, said “the Second Amendment isn’t up for debate.”

“The NRA supports the Second Amendment rights of all law-abiding Americans to purchase, possess and use firearms,” the group said in a statement Friday.

“NRA does not, and will not, support any policy proposals that implement sweeping gun bans that arbitrarily strip law-abiding citizens of their Second Amendment rights without due process,” the group said. Gun Owners of America, another major gun rights lobbying group, said it “opposes any and all gun bans. Full stop.”

Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-transgender-gun-ban-nra-second-amendment-b2821095.html



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Even the NRA is against Trump team plan to ban trans people from owning firearms (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Sep 5 OP
Oh my, the NRA is standing up for Trans gun owners! LetMyPeopleVote Sep 5 #1
NRA to trump: Fuck yourself. Paladin Sep 5 #2
NRA is actually resisting tyranny? IronLionZion Sep 5 #3
Tyranny with Trump's secret police? Norrrm Sep 5 #6
No. They are protecting the Holy Gun. travelingthrulife Sep 6 #10
Of course, gun sales are their main priority. IronLionZion Sep 6 #12
Thank goodness Justice Brandeis Sep 5 #4
Well, Butter My Butt Deep State Witch Sep 5 #5
It would set quite a precedent. Norrrm Sep 5 #7
Didn't have that on my bingo card. Shipwack Sep 5 #8
Their silence when Phillando Castille was gunned down by a cop was unforgiveable Justice Brandeis Sep 5 #9
Interesting how quiet the NRA and the other gun humpers are in the face of travelingthrulife Sep 6 #11
"...to block transgender Americans from owning firearms..." J_William_Ryan Sep 6 #13
They are affarid it will open the door to republianmushroom Sep 6 #14
The dim bulbs on the right will be confronted by the number of mass killings done by straight, white men vs. Vinca Sep 7 #15

LetMyPeopleVote

(169,744 posts)
1. Oh my, the NRA is standing up for Trans gun owners!
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 03:02 PM
Sep 5

The NRA was also opposed to people with real severe mental illnesses being prohibited from owing guns. trump got rid of the Biden effort here when he took office

Deep State Witch

(12,195 posts)
5. Well, Butter My Butt
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 03:50 PM
Sep 5

And call me a biscuit! I didn't think that they were going to chime in on this one!

Shipwack

(2,853 posts)
8. Didn't have that on my bingo card.
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 04:55 PM
Sep 5

In fact, based on their past actions, I was expecting literally the exact opposite.

Racists in California used to hang out at polling places in black neighborhoods with rifles, which was legal. When the Black Panthers started joining them with their own rifles Governor Reagan signed a bill preventing this. The NRA backed this bill, saying that “people” shouldn’t be at polling places with guns.

When black people have been shot by police for merely holding a legal firearm, they remained silent.

New marching orders from Putin? 🤔

travelingthrulife

(3,241 posts)
11. Interesting how quiet the NRA and the other gun humpers are in the face of
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 08:45 AM
Sep 6

an actual fascist takeover, rather than the fantasy ones of their fevered dreams. Not a peep, except "don't touch our precious guns". They will gladly hand over their government.

J_William_Ryan

(2,999 posts)
13. "...to block transgender Americans from owning firearms..."
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 11:15 AM
Sep 6

More bigotry, ignorance, and hate from Trump – the wrongheaded belief that transgender Americans are ‘mentally ill’ in conjunction with the mass shooting in Minneapolis.

Vinca

(52,679 posts)
15. The dim bulbs on the right will be confronted by the number of mass killings done by straight, white men vs.
Sun Sep 7, 2025, 07:45 AM
Sep 7

massing killings done by trans people. I haven't bothered to look this up and make a count, but I'm sure it will indicate white men should be banned from owning guns before trans people.

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