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Department of Justice officials are contemplating a possible ban on transgender individuals from owning guns.

Recent discussions of these gun restrictions follow the Minneapolis Catholic school shooting and reports that the suspect was transgender.

President Donald Trump has issued executive orders banning transgender people from serving in the military and barred transgender women from participating in women’s sports.

The Department of Justice is mulling issuing a potential rule to restrict transgender people from being able to own guns.

Senior DOJ officials have held several meetings in the wake of the deadly Minneapolis Catholic school shooting to discuss a firearm ban for transgender Americans, according to two sources who spoke with The Washington Post .

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