After news broke that Trump’s Department of Justice was considering taking away transgender people’s right to gun ownership, I asked the uncompromising National Rifle Association for its position. I didn’t hear back. This morning, an NRA spokesperson sent a link to a statement on Twitter.

Though it took a day to react to a red-line-crossing threat on their bedrock principle (peddling and defending a flawed interpretation of the Second Amendment), it turns out the uncompromising NRA holds an uncompromising position on gun rights.

“The NRA supports the Second Amendment rights of all law-abiding Americans to purchase, possess and use firearms,” the statement read. “NRA does not, and will not support any policy proposals that implement sweeping gun bans that arbitrarily strip law-abiding cit

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