Posted on 07/20/2015 9:14:09 AM PDT by conservativejoy
REPORT: Obama Looks to Ban Social Security Recipients from Owning Guns
Jim Hoft Jul 19th, 2015 8:35 pm —85 Comments
Back in 2008 Barack Obama promised his supporters that he would not take their guns.
“I believe in the Second Amendment. I will not take your shotgun away. I will not take your rifle away. I won’t take your handgun away… But I am not going to take your guns away. So if you want to find an excuse not to vote for me, don’t use that one because it just ain’t true. It ain’t true.”
Via Free Republic:
His campaign also ran this ad: “Barack Obama WON’T Take Away Your Gun…” obama guns union
But that was in 2008.
Now this… Barack Obama is looking to ban Social Security recipients from owning guns as part of his new gun control policies. FOX News reported:
“ The Obama administration wants to keep people collecting Social Security benefits from owning guns if it is determined they are unable to manage their own affairs, the Los Angeles Times reported.
The push, which could potentially affect millions whose monthly disability payments are handled by others, is intended to bring the Social Security Administration in line with laws that prevent gun sales to felons, drug addicts, immigrants in the United States illegally, and others, according to the paper.
The language of federal gun laws restricts ownership to people who are unable to manage their own affairs due to “marked subnormal intelligence, or mental illness, incompetency, condition, or disease” – which could potentially affect a large group within Social Security, the LA Times reported.
If Social Security, which has never taken part in the background check system, uses the same standard as the Department of Veterans Affairs – which is the idea floated – then millions of beneficiaries could be affected, with about 4.2 million adults receiving monthly benefits that are managed by “representative payees.”
This tyrannical unconstitutional power grab would concern me more if I hadn’t recently lost all my guns in a horrible boating accident.
That’s not gonna get the Dem’s many geezer votes next time...
I wasn’t aware that SS recipients with guns have been a problem.
The fact is, its just a door opener for Obama to go after the guns of people receiving VA benefits etc.
You too, huh?
“The Sea was angry that day, My FRiend....”
Where will this Congress draw the line?
They’ve given the satanic left carte blanche, with barely a peep out of the Republicans.
Man up for once. What is it about a Constitutional right that “shall not be infringed” you inside the Beltway types don’t understand?
You do have the police report of that loss and the marine report of the boating accident, I am sure.
Man, that was bad luck. Hope they were insured? We have ours on our homeowners policy. Hope things get much better for you.
see #8
NPD, as the time passes, it gradually gets worst....it wouldn’t surprise me in the least if he shoved a rabid gerbil up his...nose and committed supercide. Better lock the situation room the last month he’s in office.
You will need to decide then how you want to meet your maker. Defending your home, or from the inside of a FEMA re-education camp.
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?… The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation…. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
-Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
You know, I was about to go on a boating trip, but then a sink hole opened up and swallowed the boat. Closed right back up after that... darndest thing.
Indeed I do.
I keep it in the vault along with Zero’s Birth certificate. hehehe.
:) couldn't resist.
Excellent!
You got my “drift”.
This is serious. Right before he started assuming dictatorial powers through executive orders, he said he would love to do those things but wasn’t empowered to do so.
SCROTUS in his pocket and a congress of eunuchs ...
I moved and can’t remember which box mine are in! That darned Old-Timer’s again!
yes it is.scan medicare records and knock on doors of those with derpesion,anxiety and early dementia
Very Serious and scary
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