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‘You bring a gun into the District, you mark my words, you're going to jail,’ Jeanine Pirro told Fox news this week, adding that she didn’t care ‘if you're a law-abiding gun owner somewhere else.’

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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.

Pretti, who was licensed to carry a concealed firearm, was disarmed by officers before agents shot him multiple times in the back seconds after tackling him to the ground during an encounter in Minnesota, leading to nationwide “ICE Out” protests, demands for the defunding of the Department of Homeland Security and calls for DHS chief Kristi Noem to be impeached.

“I don’t like that he had a gun, I don’t like that he had two fully loaded magazines, that’s a lot of bad stuff. And despite that, I’d say it’s very unfortunate,” Trump, who has boasted of having the “most pro-Second Amendment administration in history,” declared last month. “You can't have guns. You can't walk in with guns,” the president said in a separate remark.

During an appearance on her old network, Pirro bragged about the dramatic fall in homicides in Washington, telling anchor Martha MacCallum that the “secret sauce” behind the drop in violent crime was the seizure of firearms by law enforcement.