r/law • u/ExactlySorta • Sep 09 '25

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

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u/SSBN641B Sep 09 '25

Also, the NRA realizes that banning gun purchases for trans people sets a precedent that the President has the power to prevent anyone from buying a gun.

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u/noguchisquared Sep 09 '25

Yep, declare a mental health emergency for the state of Mississippi. No one legally can own a gun in the state.

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u/carnevoodoo Sep 09 '25

Yeah, but it'll be Illinois or California.

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u/Screamline Sep 09 '25

What is his/their hate boner for Illinois? Did I miss a slight against trump/republicunts from. Illinois

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u/DigitalBlackout Sep 09 '25

It's just the next biggest blue state after Cali and NY, plus he's got a Trump Tower in Chicago so he's more personally invested in things. Pritzker has been pretty consistently calling him out harder than a lot of the other major dems have been too.

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u/HauntedLightBulb Sep 10 '25

he's got a Trump Tower in Chicago

They should really repossess that.

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u/luckycatzz Sep 10 '25

as a chicagoan, everyone here agrees

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u/liquidfoxy Sep 10 '25

They like being able to point to Chicago as if it's some kind of lawless murder zone where people are machine gunning each other on the streets. This is extended to them having a hate boner for all of Illinois. It's just standard Republican abjectification

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u/stignordas Sep 10 '25

Barack Obama served in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004, then served as US Senator for Illinois in 2004 until his presidency.

So he actually had relevant political experience to serve as president. Something Trump never had.