ALERT:Social Security Gun Ban

ALERT:  Obama  Admin Concludes  Social  Security  Gun  Ban,  4.2  MILLION  People  at  Risk

 

December 24, 2016
By AWR Hawkins
 

How many times do you read in the news about an elderly person defending their home with their gun? Pretty frequently. These are some of the most vulnerable people in our country and Obama is turning his back on them.  

Obama is not a man of the people and we can’t wait until he is out of there.

On Monday the Obama administration finalized a Social Security gun ban that could prevent “tens of thousands” of law-abiding elderly citizens from purchasing guns for self-defense.

Current law prohibits individuals from buying a gun if, because of a 'mental health issue', they are either a 'danger' to themselves or others or are 'unable to manage their own affairs'.

The Social Security Administration (SSA) has indicated that it will begin the rule making process to ensure that appropriate information in its records is reported to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS).

The reporting that SSA, in consultation with the Department of Justice, is expected to require will cover appropriate records of the approximately 75,000 people each year who have a documented mental health issue, receive disability benefits, and are unable to manage those benefits because of their mental impairment, 'or who have been found by a state or federal court to be legally incompetent.'

The rule making will also provide a mechanism for people to seek relief from the federal prohibition on possessing a firearm for reasons related to mental health.

In early May 2016 the SSA released more information on the ban in a 41-page preview. Page 19 said:

Under our representative payee policy, unless direct payment is prohibited, we presume that an adult beneficiary is capable of managing or directing the management of benefits. However, if we have information that the beneficiary has a mental or physical impairment that prevents him or her from managing or directing the management of benefits, we will develop the issue of capability. If a beneficiary has a mental impairment, we will develop the capability issue if there is an indication that the beneficiary may lack the ability to reason properly, is disoriented, has seriously impaired judgment, or is unable to communicate with others.

In other words, once the beneficiary has the SSA’s attention–by having someone help with finances–the process of determining mental health status begins, becoming incrementally intrusive. And if a ruling of mental illness sufficient to meet the reporting threshold is handed down, then the beneficiary will be reported to NICS and prohibited from purchasing firearms.

Despite public outcry, the rules have now been finalized. The NRA-ILA reports:

Barack Obama’s Social Security Administration (SSA) issued the final version of a rule that will doom tens of thousands of law-abiding (and vulnerable) disability insurance and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) recipients to a loss of Second Amendment rights under the guise of re-characterizing them as “mental defectives.”

The SSA, for the first time in its history, will be co-opted into the federal government’s gun control apparatus, effectively requiring Social Security applicants to weigh their need for benefits against their fundamental rights when applying for assistance based on mental health problems.

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