Trump’s gun rights record back in spotlight after reported DOJ talks on transgender ban

Recent reports that the Justice Department is weighing possible new restrictions on gun ownership for transgender people have alarmed gun rights groups and thrust President Donald Trump's record on the Second Amendment back into the spotlight. 

Trump's views on Americans' right to bear arms have shifted in his last two-plus decades as a public figure, espousing a complicated — and at times, even contradictory — relationship to the Second Amendment and gun rights advocates who support the president. 

Late last week, the National Rifle Association took umbrage at those reports, telling Fox News Digital in a statement that the group "supports the Second Amendment rights of all law-abiding Americans to purchase and use firearms."<...