Overview

• The Justice Department says it is actively evaluating options related to violence tied to specific mental health or substance-use disorders, with no formal proposal advanced.
• Reports described leadership considering rulemaking to treat gender dysphoria as a basis to disqualify transgender people from possessing firearms.
• Major gun-rights groups, including the NRA and Gun Owners of America, denounced any sweeping bans that strip law-abiding citizens of Second Amendment rights without due process.
• LGBTQ organizations such as GLAAD and the Human Rights Campaign criticized the idea as scapegoating a small, vulnerable community.
• Legal experts point to existing law requiring individualized adjudication or court orders for disarmament and to Bruen-era precedent that disfavors categorical bans imposed by executive action.