Was floating a ban on trans people owning guns just some basement-level idiot’s idea for “owning the libs”?

In the wake of Robin Westman’s deadly Minneapolis rampage, some troll in the bowels of the Trump Justice Department reportedly proposed blocking trans people from buying firearms by declaring them all “mentally ill.”

This, of course, is absurd as a simple matter of law: No rule that strips a (dubiously-defined) group of their Second Amendment rights has any chance of holding up in court.

And if it did somehow survive, that’s an open invitation for future progs to create their own “mentally ill by definition” categories — deployable to limit lots of other rights.

Something even the lowliest staffer at Justice should be capable of realizing.

The giggles, we’d guess, are supposed to come from making lefties choose between sacred cows — gun control or trans rights.

Or maybe, hah hah hah, embarrass progressives by making them side with the NRA.

We hope it turns out to just be gossip among summer interns on their way back to college.

Because if any permanent employees are involved, Attorney General Pam Bondi should give them the same heave-ho as the Subway-sandwich tosser.