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Report: President Trump Signs Repeal of Obama’s Social Security Gun Ban
Big Government ^ | 2.28.17 | Awr Hawkins

Posted on 02/28/2017 4:28:32 PM PST by drewh

On a day when legislation benefiting women and black colleges and universities was signed with much pomp and circumstance, President Trump quietly followed through on his pledge to defend the Second Amendment by signing the repeal of Barack Obama’s Social Security gun ban. The U.S, House voted to repeal the ban on February 2 and the Senate voted to repeal it on February 15.

The ban was fashioned behind closed doors in the summer of 2015 and Breitbart News reported:

The specific details of the ban are unknown, as it is being put together “outside of public view.” But the LA Times reports that a ban on gun possession due to inability to handle finances would be sweeping; that it would cover those who are unable to manage their own affairs for a multitude of reasons–from “subnormal intelligence or mental illness” to “incompetency,” an unspecified “condition,” or “disease.”

The Times notes that the finances of roughly “4.2 million” Social Security beneficiaries are handled by someone else.

As bits and pieces of the ban continued to be revealed over the following months, it was evident that Social Security beneficiaries who required help managing their finances were in jeopardy of losing their Second Amendment rights. An overview of the ban–provided by the Social Security Administration (SSA)–showed it was structured so that persons under mental duress and requiring help with their finances could be investigated by the SSA, then turned over to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) to be barred from gun purchases.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; age; aged; aging; banglist; finances; guns; gunshops; nics; obama; secondamendment; selfdefense; seniors; socialsecurity; waronseniors; warontheelderly
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1 posted on 02/28/2017 4:28:32 PM PST by drewh
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To: drewh

Energizer President. We keep winning and winning and winning.


2 posted on 02/28/2017 4:33:55 PM PST by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: drewh
Really glad to see this. This was just another baby step gun control gambit by the left.

Thank You President Trump!

3 posted on 02/28/2017 4:38:51 PM PST by Art in Idaho (Conservatism is the only Hope for Western Civilization.)
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To: drewh
This is horrifying to learn of this....

What else did that sonofabitch pretender to the presidency do when no one was looking?

Thank you dear President Trump for undoing what that bastard has done. Now please put him and the Clintons in Jail.

4 posted on 02/28/2017 4:39:17 PM PST by Victor (If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert." -David Ben-Gurion, the first Prime Minister)
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To: Victor

this is what happens down the rabbit holes of the EO’s...Malia and Sasha become ‘senior white house staff’ to go to africa and the peoples guns get taken away...


5 posted on 02/28/2017 4:41:23 PM PST by drewh
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To: drewh

do the same for the VA vets.


6 posted on 02/28/2017 4:41:29 PM PST by stylin19a (Terrorists - "just because you don't see them doesn't mean they aren't there")
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To: drewh

WIN WIN WIN!
GO TRUMP!
now, DRAIN the Obama-infested SWAMP at Snake Dept and in our intelligence, defense, and security agencies especially


7 posted on 02/28/2017 4:43:59 PM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicans are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
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To: drewh

These Executive Orders are welcome but I would like to see them backed up by law to eliminate the possibility of another insane democrat coming along and overriding them with another Executive Order.

The republican senate and congress have a uniqe two year window to get things done. They can pass laws with majorities in both houses and a republican president.

They need to get off their lazy butts and start doing instead of talking and promising.


8 posted on 02/28/2017 4:48:52 PM PST by Vlad The Inhaler ("Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory." --Miguel de Cervantes)
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To: drewh; mylife; Joe Brower; MaxMax; Randy Larsen; waterhill; Envisioning; AZ .44 MAG; umgud; ...

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9 posted on 02/28/2017 4:49:32 PM PST by PROCON (Defending the Border isn't a Political Option, it's a Constitutional Obligation ~ Rick Perry)
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good


10 posted on 02/28/2017 4:50:33 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: drewh

MSM will report that Trump is giving guns to crazy people.


11 posted on 02/28/2017 4:52:47 PM PST by umgud
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To: Vlad The Inhaler

These Executive Orders are welcome but I would like to see them backed up by law to eliminate the possibility of another insane democrat coming along and overriding them with another Executive Order.
= = = = = = = = = = =

AGREE on the EO’s

BUT

This one passed the House & Senate and he signed it...SO would imagine it is a properly executed piece of legislation... I think...<: <: <:


12 posted on 02/28/2017 4:57:42 PM PST by xrmusn ((6/98)" "Keep Calm & Kill Them All"-Gen J 'MadDog' Mattis USMC")
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To: Victor
This is horrifying to learn of this.... What else did that sonofabitch pretender to the presidency do when no one was looking?

Yes, I hope Bannon, Kellyanne and other Trump staffers are going through each and every Obama EO during his eight years of Presidency. When I first heard of this one about a month ago, I was horrified.

Obamas midnight EO: ". . a ban on gun possession due to inability to handle finances would be sweeping; that it would cover those who are unable to manage their own affairs for a multitude of reasons–from “subnormal intelligence or mental illness” to “incompetency,” an unspecified “condition,” or “disease.”

I forgot to sign a check the other day. And yes, I have a few "conditions" and one or two "diseases" but I am basically of sound mind and can damn well shoot straight. They indeed did sneak this under our noses.

13 posted on 02/28/2017 4:58:25 PM PST by Art in Idaho (Conservatism is the only Hope for Western Civilization.)
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To: Vlad The Inhaler

“These Executive Orders are welcome but I would like to see them backed up by law to eliminate the possibility of another insane democrat coming along and overriding them with another Executive Order.”

You think that would stop somebody like Obama? Laws? We don’t need no stinkin laws!


14 posted on 02/28/2017 4:58:40 PM PST by aquila48
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To: drewh

That means they are not going to take away my Ivers-Johnson, single shot, break-away, 410.


15 posted on 02/28/2017 4:59:52 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country.)
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To: drewh

Thank you Sir.


16 posted on 02/28/2017 5:07:14 PM PST by buffaloguy
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To: Lazamataz

WINNING!!


17 posted on 02/28/2017 5:07:54 PM PST by TADSLOS (Reset Underway!)
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To: Vlad The Inhaler

....These Executive Orders are welcome but I would like to see them backed up by law...

...The U.S, House voted to repeal the ban on February 2 and the Senate voted to repeal it on February 15....

Since the House and Senate passed this, it was not a suggestion. It was a Bill that went to the President’s desk where he signed it into law.


18 posted on 02/28/2017 5:12:07 PM PST by Sasparilla ( I'm Not tired of Winning)
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To: xrmusn
This one passed the House & Senate and he signed it...SO would imagine it is a properly executed piece of legislation... I think...

Sounds good.

Not sure how that works.

19 posted on 02/28/2017 5:13:01 PM PST by Vlad The Inhaler ("Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory." --Miguel de Cervantes)
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To: PROCON

Well thats another WIN ..... Gonna Snoopy dance my old ass over to the fridge and crack open a cold Shiner Bock in celebration !!!


20 posted on 02/28/2017 5:17:23 PM PST by Squantos (Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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