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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: Mariner

Sue the living crap out of the halfrican’s corrupt administration.

This won’t pass constitutional muster.


61 posted on 01/04/2016 8:05:06 PM PST by Nervous Tick (There is no "allah" but satan, and mohammed was his demon-possessed tool.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

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It would be nice to have a non-psychotic episode from you.


62 posted on 01/04/2016 8:06:02 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Mariner

Not only will your child’s pediatrician ask if *there are any guns in your house?*

They’ll also ask if the kid ever worries about not having food in the house? If they are hungry.

The new buzz word: **FOOD INSECURITY**

http://psychcentral.com/news/2015/10/24/aap-asks-pediatricians-to-screen-all-children-for-food-insecurity/93895.html


63 posted on 01/04/2016 8:06:05 PM PST by Daffynition (*Gun control is a tool to make innocents pay the price for the guilty* W.LaPierre)
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To: Mariner

So anyone who took anxiety pills withing the last 100 years shouldn’t bother to apply for a permit because they will be declined?


64 posted on 01/04/2016 8:06:14 PM PST by 1_Rain_Drop
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To: JudyinCanada

Easy-peasy, since now a man who says he’s a woman is considered brave and the people who say he’s crazy are the ones who are the mentally ill. It’s a mad, mad world we live in now.


65 posted on 01/04/2016 8:12:16 PM PST by CarolinaPeach
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To: Scrambler Bob

I believe that story only if she had made threats to herself or others. You would likely not know is she had.


66 posted on 01/04/2016 8:12:43 PM PST by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O�Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: Mariner

67 posted on 01/04/2016 8:16:16 PM PST by RginTN
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To: microgood

“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.

??? The information obtained during psychiatric proceedings is divulged in courts of law and the patient subjected to involuntary short-term commitmemt all the time.


68 posted on 01/04/2016 8:18:48 PM PST by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O�Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: steve86

This is CA.

She made no threats. I got the story from the clerk at the counter; she came in crying after notification from the CA Dept of [no] Justice, DOJ.

Another friend, treated for depression due to injury resulting in loss of job, and no subsequent help from state disability, was visited by ‘dressed out’ DOJ who inspected his whole house (at about 9 pm - freaked out his wife) for any guns / gun stuff.

He had already sold all. Showed them his empty safe.


69 posted on 01/04/2016 8:24:19 PM PST by Scrambler Bob (Using 4th keyboard due to wearing out the "/" and "s" on the previous 3)
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To: steve86
??? The information obtained during psychiatric proceedings is divulged in courts of law and the patient subjected to involuntary short-term commitmemt all the time.

But how does that happen? If he walks out of the doctors office on a way to a gun store, how long will it take to get him on some kind of list or will he be able to buy a gun while the court actions evolve.
70 posted on 01/04/2016 8:25:41 PM PST by microgood
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To: Scrambler Bob

Time for a boating accident.


71 posted on 01/04/2016 8:26:25 PM PST by setha (It is past time for the United States to take back what the world took away.)
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To: Mariner

Since when does a rule trump a law?


72 posted on 01/04/2016 8:26:33 PM PST by Bryan24 (When in doubt, move to the right..........)
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To: Mariner

Is it mental illness to believe you are a monarch and the American people your serfs if the other two branches of the government do nothing to disabuse you of the notion?


73 posted on 01/04/2016 8:28:24 PM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Mariner

Remember the tactics of the anti-smoking and the gay lobbies. They got all they wanted. They just ate the elephant one bite at a time.


74 posted on 01/04/2016 8:32:07 PM PST by pfflier
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To: Huskrrrr

Don’t forget, veterans since Vietnam have been characterized as mentally and emotionally unstable.


75 posted on 01/04/2016 8:34:01 PM PST by pfflier
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To: Mariner

This is EXACTLY what Stalin did——just got his flunkies-—anyone—it could be doctors, neighbors, etc to spy and report to the government and then without due process (lying doctors, etc.) they put people who did not “think” correctly (like fascist pigs) in prison and the gulag.

“Mental Illness” is the Trojan horse. You are destroying patient privacy (unconstitutional) and you are destroying “trust” between patient/doctor —creating a fascist system where evil people can be masters of life and death with NO DUE PROCESS——Guilty until proven innocent///

What could go wrong with the Stalinesque system. (Obama needs to be put in prison for Treason!!!) He is one EVIL son-of-a-gun and knows EXACTLY what he is doing.


76 posted on 01/04/2016 8:34:10 PM PST by savagesusie (Right Reason According to Nature = Just Law)
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To: PAR35
Be careful what you tell your doctor. And stay away from psychiatrists.

You're crazy if you go to a psychiatrist.

77 posted on 01/04/2016 8:35:33 PM PST by Navy Patriot (America, a Rule of Mob nation)
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To: JudyinCanada

Now all they have to do is redefine mental illness, and presto....they can control who gets or keeps their guns.

They already did. Homosexuality was considered a mental illness up until the 80’s or so.

The clinical diagnosis for anything can change dependent on the thoughts of the day.

Dangerous times.


78 posted on 01/04/2016 8:36:16 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
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To: Scrambler Bob

The outcome here is fewer liberals with mental disorders will own guns, and they will find themselves defenseless against criminals.


79 posted on 01/04/2016 8:40:55 PM PST by inchworm
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To: Scrambler Bob

...empty safe.

Now it looks like an empty safe is needed for “show”.
And you hit the flower beds with Rem oil from time to time...


80 posted on 01/04/2016 8:42:28 PM PST by alpo
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