#2 is about trying to loophole\bypass HIPPA privacy. That may take a bill from congress.
#16 is also kinda scary.
I went to the VA and they asked me if I owned any guns.
I said “HUH?
They said they could ask but I didn’t have to tell them anything. I’m guessing that will be the gist of # 16.
but the rest seems like Obama bailed.
Most of that stuff is somewhat in place in some form or another.
Tell them, “yeah, I keep an assault weapon in the trunk of my car;” [it’s a paint ball gun]; “ It’s not useful for hunting or personal protection, I only use it to shoot other humans ...”
“No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid. To deny this, would be to affirm, that the deputy is greater than his principal; that the servant is above his master; that the representatives of the people are superior to the people themselves; that men acting by virtue of powers, may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid. ... “
- Alexander Hamilton
but the rest seems like Obama bailed.
I am wondering if this will be come to know "ask and don't tell."
I suspect that he counted votes and figured he had danced so far out on the plank that he had to do something and this is the best he could do at saving face.
I do agree that the HIPPA stuff could be a really backdoor way of identifying gun owners and putting them on special lists and asking them questions that if answered wrong could allow them to be labeled as mentally unfit to own firearms. A slippery slope.