Suspected White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooter, Cole Tomas Allen, urged his Bluesky followers to purchase guns over fears the Trump administration might ban so-called transgender individuals from owning firearms. A Bluesky account suspected to be Allen’s posted a CNN article “Trump DOJ is looking at ways to ban transgender Americans from owning guns, sources say,” with the caption “Best time to buy a gun was <greater than or equal to your state’s waiting period> days ago Second best time is today.” The September 2025 CNN article posted discussed a mass shooting that took place at a Minneapolis Catholic church, carried out by a “23-year-old transgender woman.” The article says the Department of Justice was “weighing proposals to limit transgender people’s right to possess firearms” and framed this potential move as “a dramatic escalation of the Trump administration’s fight against the rights of transgender Americans.” There have been several recent high-profile shootings in the past several years with ties to transgenderism, leading the Trump administration to examine the relationship between transgenderism and violence. Allen obtained a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the prestigious California Institute of Technology in 2017, where he participated in the school’s Christian Fellowship Program, according to his LinkedIn profile and social media posts. December 2016 Facebook posts from Caltech Christian Fellowship show Allen smiling and attending an event held by the school’s Christian club. Evangelical Christians believe there are only two sexes and openly oppose transgenderism. Allen wrote an anti-Trump manifesto that mocked Christianity and was sent to a family member minutes before the shooting, according to reporting from The New York Post. Allen mocked the Christian idea of “turning the other cheek” in the manifesto writing, “Turning the other cheek is for when you yourself are oppressed. I’m not the person raped in a detention camp. I’m not the fisherman executed without trial,” according to reporting from The New York Post. “Turning the other cheek when *someone else* is oppressed is not Christian behavior; it is complicity in the oppressor’s crimes,” Allen wrote in a manifesto provided to U.S. officials according to reporting from The New York Post.