Max Raskin is an adjunct law professor at New York University and a fellow at the school’s Institute for Judicial Administration.

The Post reported last week that Justice Department officials have held meetings to consider banning transgender people from owning firearms, in the wake of the Aug. 27 shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic school by a transgender former student that killed two children and injured 21 other people. Such a ban could involve a Justice Department blanket determination that being transgender qualifies as being “a mental defective” under the relevant gun control statute. Liberal groups have denounced the idea — and they are being joined, in an unusual alliance, by conservative gun rights advocates, including the National Rifle Association, which is one of President Don

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