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Jeanine Pirro is currently under fire from gun rights advocates and pro-Second Amendment MAGA personalities after declaring this week that anyone who enters the District of Columbia with a gun – even if they are lawfully allowed to carry a firearm – could face jail time.

“Come and Take it,” one GOP congressman reacted, while another right-wing media host said he was “ABSOLUTELY outraged” over Pirro’s stance.

Pirro, the U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C. and a former Fox News host, made her comments just days after Donald Trump sparked outrage from pro-gun groups and conservatives for insisting that Alex Pretti shouldn’t have been carrying a handgun when he was killed by immigration enforcement agents last month.

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