BREAKING: Massive Gun Grab
is About to Rock 4.2 Million
Social Security Recipients’ World
Posted on July 18, 2015
Time to push back and tell the government to keep their grimy hands off our guns.
The liberty-hating Obama Administration isn’t coming for your guns, except when they are:
Seeking tighter controls over firearm purchases, the
Obama administration is pushing to ban Social Security beneficiaries
from owning guns if they lack the mental capacity to manage their own
affairs, a move that could affect millions whose monthly disability
payments are handled by others.
The push is intended to bring the Social Security Administration in
line with laws regulating who gets reported to the National Instant
Criminal Background Check System, or NICS, which is used to prevent gun
sales to felons, drug addicts, immigrants in the country illegally and
others.
A potentially large group within Social Security are people who, in
the language of federal gun laws, are unable to manage their own affairs
due to “marked subnormal intelligence, or mental illness, incompetency,
condition, or disease.”
…
But critics — including gun rights activists, mental health experts
and advocates for the disabled — say that expanding the list of
prohibited gun owners based on financial competence is wrongheaded.
The liberty-hating Obama Administration isn’t coming for your guns, except when they are:
Seeking tighter controls over firearm purchases, the Obama administration is pushing to ban Social Security beneficiaries from owning guns if they lack the mental capacity to manage their own affairs, a move that could affect millions whose monthly disability payments are handled by others.The push is intended to bring the Social Security Administration in line with laws regulating who gets reported to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, or NICS, which is used to prevent gun sales to felons, drug addicts, immigrants in the country illegally and others.A potentially large group within Social Security are people who, in the language of federal gun laws, are unable to manage their own affairs due to “marked subnormal intelligence, or mental illness, incompetency, condition, or disease.”…But critics — including gun rights activists, mental health experts and advocates for the disabled — say that expanding the list of prohibited gun owners based on financial competence is wrongheaded.Though such a ban would keep at least some people who pose a danger to themselves or others from owning guns, the strategy undoubtedly would also include numerous people who may just have a bad memory or difficulty balancing a checkbook, the critics argue.“Someone can be incapable of managing their funds but not be dangerous, violent or unsafe,” said Dr. Marc Rosen, a Yale psychiatrist who has studied how veterans with mental health problems manage their money. “They are very different determinations.”
Roughly 2.7 million of those receiving SSA benefits have mental health concerns, but according to the L.A. Times, 1.5 million others have their finances managed for others reasons, yet would still be targeted by Obama’s gun grab.
This “broad brush” approach appeals to the Obama Administration
because it will deny gun rights to the largest possible segment of
Americans possible by executive fiat, with little recourse for those
affected. It amounts to extortion, telling people they must give up
their Second Amendment rights, or else loose government benefits.
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