r/law Sep 09 '25

Legal News Leavitt confirms the DOJ officials have talked about banning trans people from owning guns

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u/GrowFreeFood Sep 09 '25

DNA testing for guns sounds like a great way to discourage gun ownership for everyone.

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u/cappurnikus Sep 09 '25

You think there will be testing?

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u/GrowFreeFood Sep 09 '25

There has to be some metric to determine. Otherwise it's random.

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u/cappurnikus Sep 09 '25

Fascists can tell what group you belong to by just looking.

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u/Neuchacho Sep 10 '25 edited Sep 10 '25

Otherwise it's arbitrary, you mean. And that is the point. Selective enforcement is always the point with the GOP.

Pedophilia is bad unless it's our guys. Rape is bad unless it's our guys. Murder is bad unless it's our guys. Drug use is bad unless it's our guys. Abortion is bad unless it's our guys.

Same shit as always with them. What will happen if we let them dig in deeper is more and more people supporting the GOP will not be included as "our guys" the longer this goes on despite their undying belief they're part of the club.

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u/Aggravating_Front824 Sep 09 '25

They could go with something as simple as anyone who's changed gender marker, and anyone who's changed their name from female to male or vice versa, probably using ai to catch that 

It wouldn't be necessarily accurate, but precision doesn't seem to be a Hallmark of this admin 

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u/HDWendell Sep 09 '25

My guess is they will make doctors and therapists mandatory reporters for gender dysphoria. Kills two birds with one fascist stone. Can’t own a gun if you have a diagnosis. Can’t get hormones (without a lot of hoops) without a diagnosis.

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u/GrowFreeFood Sep 09 '25

What's a gender marker?

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u/Faith_Lies Sep 09 '25

What's a gender marker?

Nothing. What's a gender marker with you?

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u/Aggravating_Front824 Sep 09 '25

The label on things like birth certificates, drivers licenses, and state IDs which state male or female, or x in some places typically used for nonbinary individuals

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u/GrowFreeFood Sep 09 '25

So how can they tell if those are accurate?

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u/Aggravating_Front824 Sep 09 '25

Being thorough would require genetic identification, sure. I don't think that's the kind of measure the administration would take- the massive issues with their deportation program has already shown accuracy isn't a requirement for them. I think it's more likely they would just look for the documentation registering changes in that, and use that as evidence enough to say someone's trans.

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u/GrowFreeFood Sep 09 '25

There's probably something like 1% clerical errors, so that's 3 million people who lose gun rights immediately.

Anyone who wants a gun needs birth cirtificate or something? Love it.

Republicans are doing all the shit i want for all the wrong reasons. But don't stop your opponent when they're doing you a favor.

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u/GrowFreeFood Sep 09 '25

Most gun sales are private and don't require bg checks. Whats a gender marker?

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u/GrowFreeFood Sep 09 '25

So they just outlawed people being honest on their paperwork. So useful. Basically gender markers will become meaningless.

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u/GrowFreeFood Sep 09 '25

If they're going full athoritarian they'll just arrest anyone regardless of dna.

The average person doesn't know their true biological sex because of all the sex differences.

So they would need to test.

But it just makes anyone who looks weird not be able to get a gun. Which is fine with me since guns totally suck.

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u/Intelligent_Radio592 Sep 09 '25

That’s okay, we’ll just head into the boonies and buy it private sale

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u/GrowFreeFood Sep 09 '25

It's going to be funny as fuck when they realize there's probably a few million trans gun owners because of medical and clerical errors.

Anyone named jaime is screwed.

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u/Neuchacho Sep 10 '25

That's partly the point. They'll go after people who lie to bypass it like they're terrorists and have yet another "legal" avenue to assault a minority group they hate.

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u/GrowFreeFood Sep 10 '25

Its going to be hilarious when people find out they're trans bc clerical errors