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Doctors can report some mentally ill patients to FBI under new gun control rule
Politico ^ | January 4th, 2016 | By David Pittman

Posted on 01/04/2016 7:33:04 PM PST by Mariner

Delivering on its promise to deliver "common sense" gun control, the Obama administration on Monday finalized a rule that enables health care providers to report the names of mentally ill patients to an FBI firearms background check system.

The action was one of a series of steps that President Barack Obama had called for in January 2013 in the wake of the Newtown, Conn., shootings to curb gun violence, but the rule was not published until today.

While the 1993 Brady law prohibits gun ownership by individuals who have been involuntarily committed, found incompetent to stand trial or otherwise deemed by a court to be a danger to themselves or others, federal health care privacy rules prohibited doctors and other providers from sharing information without the consent of their patients.

Under the rule, which takes effect next month, for the first time health providers can disclose the information to the background check system without legal repercussions.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; gunsmentalillness; obamaguncontrol; obamagunpresser; tyranny
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To: Scrambler Bob

A legitimate concern.


41 posted on 01/04/2016 7:53:41 PM PST by PAR35
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To: Mariner

So any doctor can pronounce someone crazy, from a psychiatrist, to an allergist, to podiatrist, to colo-rectal surgeon?


42 posted on 01/04/2016 7:53:49 PM PST by LibWhacker
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To: dp0622

32 years ago - the doctor has probably long since shredded the files. Don’t ask, don’t tell.


43 posted on 01/04/2016 7:54:39 PM PST by PAR35
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To: Mariner

Never say anything in a doctor’s office about being depressed. Fake (if you have to) a happy attitude while there. If your foot is cut off, tell the doc that is okay, you have another one. Get the idea?


44 posted on 01/04/2016 7:55:07 PM PST by Marcella (CRUZ (Prepping can save your life today))
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To: Scrambler Bob

I always do. As a matter of fact, people who slow the line at the grocery check out who use their debit cards piss me off. I use cash.


45 posted on 01/04/2016 7:55:14 PM PST by max americana (fired every liberal in our company at every election cycle..and laughed at their faces (true story))
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To: Mariner

The term mentally illness covers a broad area. As an example, agoraphobia as well as many other benign phobias, obsessive compulsive disorder, non-clinical depression, anxiety, gambling addiction, sexual addiction, just to name a few. Interestingly, drug addiction is now considered a mental illness. We will see most doctors reporting just about everyone in order to cover themselves and avoid lawsuits, should someone go postal. This will be a mess.


46 posted on 01/04/2016 7:56:02 PM PST by Toespi
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To: max americana

LMAO. Maybe I should wear my shotgun totin’ Kurt Cobain t-shirt to the appointment...


47 posted on 01/04/2016 7:56:07 PM PST by TADSLOS (A Ted Cruz Happy Warrior! GO TED!)
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To: Timber Rattler

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Everything the one has done is either unlawful, or unconstitutional.

He is pleased with your assessment.


48 posted on 01/04/2016 7:56:17 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Scrambler Bob

CA already has that law?

and it was retroactive?

insanity. he’s really turning it on this year folks.

people getting sent back to jail after finishing their term.

250k fines for calling a person the gender they are.

now his.


49 posted on 01/04/2016 7:56:34 PM PST by dp0622 (i)
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To: PAR35

Wait till a Christian says, “I am full of joy, I have hope, I love and want to help my fellow man, etc.”

That will certainly be called INSANE (already done in old Soviet Union).


50 posted on 01/04/2016 7:57:06 PM PST by Scrambler Bob (Using 4th keyboard due to wearing out the "/" and "s" on the previous 3)
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To: Mariner

Think that the government wants to take your guns away? Obviously paranoid, and your guns should be taken.

Think that the government doesn’t want to take your guns away? Obviously lost touch with reality, and your guns should be taken.

Those two things should cover most folks.


51 posted on 01/04/2016 7:57:22 PM PST by PAR35
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To: max americana

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Using a debit card is way faster than using cash is this post-education society.


52 posted on 01/04/2016 7:58:21 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Scrambler Bob

i’m sorry, I have to say this again. 250K FINE

FOR CALLING A MAN A MAN AT WORK!!!! if he wants to be called a woman.

Dad, thank goodness you’re not around.


53 posted on 01/04/2016 7:58:34 PM PST by dp0622 (i)
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To: dp0622

Not retroactive.

She came up as kind of ‘mental’ on the background check.


54 posted on 01/04/2016 7:58:41 PM PST by Scrambler Bob (Using 4th keyboard due to wearing out the "/" and "s" on the previous 3)
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To: Mariner; All

Oh this would never be abused.

Doctor swatting. I coined it.


55 posted on 01/04/2016 7:59:51 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: editor-surveyor

It would sure be nice to have a post-stuck-up society.


56 posted on 01/04/2016 8:00:10 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Marcella

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Much easier to just not go to the quacks.

Healthier for sure.


57 posted on 01/04/2016 8:01:03 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor

Say the proud about the shrinks.


58 posted on 01/04/2016 8:02:31 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Mariner
This cuts both ways. Liberals have been trying to prevent this so I was surprised when Obama came up with this. Currently, if someone walks into his psychiatrist office and says he is going to buy a bunch of guns and hit a mall of thousands of people, the doctor cannot divulge that.

Obviously there is no due process on the terrorist watchlist or the no fly list, but it might make sense to establish a due process when dealing with psychopaths who openly state their intentions to doctors.
59 posted on 01/04/2016 8:04:17 PM PST by microgood
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To: Mariner

Geez, does this mean I need to quit seeing my shrink? /s


60 posted on 01/04/2016 8:04:47 PM PST by umgud
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