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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: Nervous Tick

My kidney doctor saw all this coming three years ago. He sold his practice, bought an AR, two Sig Sauers and a cabin in the woods in East Texas and is survivor ready for the SHTF. He was the only sane doctor in my stable of five doctors. I am not a well man these days. I miss his solid advise on how to fight Obuttcare.


81 posted on 01/04/2016 8:44:04 PM PST by batterycommander (...Change your diaper, diaperhead. It's full of shiite.)
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To: Steely Tom
"Gee, how does this square with HIPAA?"

From the article:

"Current law allows HIPAA exclusions for law enforcement purposes, but it's a broad exclusion."


82 posted on 01/04/2016 8:52:52 PM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in "Idiocracy," example of today's politico.)
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To: Timber Rattler

Ah! But abortion is considered a “right” in the constitution only BECAUSE of some supposed “right to privacy” found somewhere in the constitution .. regarding “health care” and the government!


83 posted on 01/04/2016 8:53:37 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Mariner

This cuts out all liberals from gun ownership then.


84 posted on 01/04/2016 8:56:34 PM PST by headstamp 2
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To: Mariner

They always could ... at least since the mid eighties


85 posted on 01/04/2016 8:57:54 PM PST by knarf (I say things that are true .... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
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To: dp0622

Would I still be fined if I merely said, “She look-a like a man?”


86 posted on 01/04/2016 8:58:20 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Terrorism, the thing that shall not be named by the MSM)
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To: Mariner

Narcissistic personality disorder is a mental disorder in which people have an inflated sense of their own importance, a deep need for admiration and a lack of empathy for others. And that is the guy that is issuing EOs


87 posted on 01/04/2016 8:59:01 PM PST by Starstruck (I'm usually sarcastic. Deal with it.)
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To: Mariner

“Doc, I been a lot better since I walked out of the nervous hospital.”


88 posted on 01/04/2016 9:03:53 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Mariner
hillary clinton crazy like manson

Report this shrew.

89 posted on 01/04/2016 9:08:16 PM PST by Bon mots
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To: dp0622

how far in the future when we start to get reeducated?

In the future? I can see you haven’t been paying
attention in class.


90 posted on 01/04/2016 9:10:05 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Mariner
My Doctor is a 2nd amendate supporter. If I had a doctor that was not, with a stroke of a pen he could deny my right to keep and bear arms. This is Tyranny.

PS
He shoots with me at my range in my backyard. I live in the country with several acres of land. I have some nice weapons but Docs are superb. He cost me several hundred dollars one day. He brought over his FAL and I immediately feel into gun envy. I bought one a few days later.

I hate it when this happens, but just for a little while!

91 posted on 01/04/2016 9:14:17 PM PST by cpdiii (DECKHAND, ROUGHNECK, GEOLOGIST, PILOT, PHARMACIST, LIBERTARIAN The Constitution is worth dying for.)
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To: Mariner

Mental illness?

How about if they lock up dangerous whackjobs? Those “suicidal” types. Right along with the child molesters.


92 posted on 01/04/2016 9:21:33 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: Mariner; TADSLOS; Crazieman; GraceG; Sarah Barracuda; onyx; Jane Long; LUV W; MeganC; Lazamataz
OH MY GOSH!

I literally just fell out of my chair!

I was hit with a literal epiphany this evening.

I was reading this thread and Then I realized soon they will be treating us like Replicates from Blade Runner!

I kid you not. We will be undergoing Turning Tests to have the government "approve" of our Fitness for owning a weapon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-DkoGvcEBw

My God How did we get here?

93 posted on 01/04/2016 9:22:30 PM PST by KC_Lion (The fences are going up all over Europe. We shall not see them down again in our lifetime.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom; All

So you are a Doctor reporting a nut case???


94 posted on 01/04/2016 9:34:46 PM PST by gleeaikin
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To: Mariner
Among other reasons, this is because of the Virginia Tech shooter who had been to counseling and was so clearly disturbed that it scared his counselor.

But due to privacy laws in Virginia, she could not report him to law enforcement.
95 posted on 01/04/2016 9:36:00 PM PST by Calvin Cooledge
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To: Mariner

*Patient suffers from the mental illness of Christianity.*


96 posted on 01/04/2016 9:38:35 PM PST by Rebelbase
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To: HiTech RedNeck; Scrambler Bob; All

Several decades ago the mental hospitals were phased out as a result of more effective medication. However, community mental health clinics were supposed to take up the slack and supervise the medication, but were very underfunded, so now we have large numbers of mentally ill homeless wandering in our cities. Also significant number in our prisons that ought to be in mental hospitals receiving treatment.


97 posted on 01/04/2016 9:39:19 PM PST by gleeaikin
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To: setha

I think bo will make some requirement for ‘timely’ reporting of loss or theft of a gun.

Better get some boiler-plate boating accident forms printed up, kind of like those Twin-Peaks biker arrest forms.


98 posted on 01/04/2016 9:41:50 PM PST by Scrambler Bob (Using 4th keyboard due to wearing out the "/" and "s" on the previous 3)
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To: gleeaikin

It may be doctors today, but how long before it’s “If you see something, say something — about a gun you saw”?


99 posted on 01/04/2016 9:43:16 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not, no explanation is possible)
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To: gleeaikin

Also significant number in our prisons that ought to be in mental hospitals receiving treatment.

= = =

And County Jails, and any other lock-up.

Add in that unless you are in mental hospital due to court order, you can check yourself out at any time.

Learning this on the fly.


100 posted on 01/04/2016 9:45:33 PM PST by Scrambler Bob (Using 4th keyboard due to wearing out the "/" and "s" on the previous 3)
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