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Obama pushes to extend gun background checks to Social Security
chicagotribune.com ^ | July 18, 2015 | Alan Zarembo

Posted on 07/18/2015 9:46:09 AM PDT by PROCON

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."

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2a; 2ndamendment; banglist; guncontrol; gungrabbers; obama; secondamendment; socialsecurity; traitor; tyranny
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To: PROCON

People are supposed to be adjudicated in court before having any of their rights taken away.


81 posted on 07/19/2015 3:02:16 PM PDT by ColdSteelTalon (Light is fading to shadow, and casting its shroud over all we have known...)
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So he just announces it outside of law.

That is 100% illegal.


82 posted on 07/19/2015 3:36:54 PM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: PROCON

That’s Nazi language, “sub-normal intelligence”.


83 posted on 07/19/2015 3:48:05 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: PROCON

This would be a state issue not a federal issue.


84 posted on 07/19/2015 3:54:32 PM PDT by Monorprise
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To: moovova

Best laugh I’ve had all day. Thanks!


85 posted on 07/19/2015 4:07:31 PM PDT by Comment Not Approved (When bureaucrats outlaw hunting, outlaws will hunt bureaucrats.)
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To: PROCON
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."

That can't be the controlling verbiage. If that were the law, there wouldn't be a politician in the world who could own a gun.

86 posted on 07/20/2015 11:06:22 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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