Posted on 01/09/2013 12:08:37 PM PST by Nachum
Theres a widely-unknown provision in the Affordable Care Act (also known as Obamacare) legislative wording that is capturing attention in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Pushed by the National Rifle Association (NRA), a newly-noticed regulation that was placed deep within the bill back in 2010, among other things, bans doctors from documenting patients answers to questions that focus upon guns.
The Washington Post first reported on Dec. 30 about the presence of this controversial wording. Under a section with the headline Protection of Second Amendment Gun Rights, the NRA-advocated wording is nestled deep within the law. The Post called the inclusion, a largely overlooked but significant challenge to a movement in American medicine to treat firearms as a matter of public health.
As the outlet also noted, it was in the final stretch of the debate over Obamas health care legislation that the NRA successfully pushed to insert this language. Below, see the portions of the Affordable Care Act that include mentions of firearms and the parameters through which doctors must operate in questioning patients (read the entire health care bill here):
(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...
Let us see if that wording might invalidate NFA...considering the upcoming Executive Order will in all odds use NFA for nefarious ends.
“So the docs can ask questions but theyre not supposed to keep records for the goverment about your answers.”
Yes indeedy, just like how the FBI does not keep NICS check results!
“Let us see if that wording might invalidate NFA.”
I don’t understand, can you educate me? TIA
NFA is the law requiring extremely tight registration, including a $200 tax on transfers, of “sawed off shotguns”, silencers, short barreled rifles, destructive devices (big guns), and the few remaining legal machineguns.
There is a viable theory that the Obama will issue an Executive Order to force “assault weapons”, if not all semiautomatics, into that category. You’ll be able to keep your guns, but they will be subject to very strict monitoring and scrutiny - an untenable position for most people, who presumably would rather give up the guns than adhere to the hyper strict law.
This is akin to the Obama’s current plan destroying the coal industry.
The hope here is that maybe, just maybe, there is wording in this odd part of Obamacare which could invalidate NFA by forbidding any law requiring gun registration. I’m skeptical this is the case, but it’s sure worth a shot. Such an invalidation would scuttle the predicted EO abusing NFA, and in great irony make considerably more dangerous guns perfectly legal without hassle.
It’s worth a shot.
Thank you.
Dropped it altogether.
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