Frank Langfitt

When people buy a gun in the United States, of course, they don't have to say why.

But I did look at Google Trends and it was interesting.

I put in the phrase, how do I buy a gun?

And I saw that it spiked a number of times in the last year.

Yeah, pretty interesting.

Around the time of Trump's election, his inauguration, the first immigration enforcement blitz that was back in January, and the day when Trump held a military parade here in Washington.

You know, they feel, Aisha, the ones that I talked to, that the Trump administration has it out for them.

Here's just a couple of examples that they cite.

You know, the president ordered federal departments to define gender as unchangeable and assigned at birth.

He also banned transgender people from serving in the armed forces.

I've been talking to Dana, who works as a software engineering consultant in the Boston area.

Like Charles, Dana grew up in a very anti-gun household and also, like Charles, does not want their name out there.

Now, Dana had done a little bit of training with the Pink Pistols.

That was a group we heard from earlier, which caters to LGBTQ folks.

But watching the riot on January 6, 2020, really changed the way Dana thought about the need for firearms.

About two years later, Dana got a license to carry a concealed firearm and began buying guns.

Now Dana identifies as non-binary transfeminine.

I first talked to Dana about the Trump administration all the way back in June.

Europe.

But Dana doesn't want to say specifically.