Posted on 03/22/2018 3:00:15 PM PDT by richardb72
Congressional Republicans are jeopardizing the Second Amendment rights of 4.2 million senior citizens. At the same time, they have voted to funnel tens of millions of dollars to gun control organizations and support other actions that Democrats will love.
All of this is wrapped up in the giant $1.3 trillion spending bill that the House of Representatives approved Thursday on a 256-167 vote and sent to the Senate.
Just before President Obama left office, his administration finalized new regulations banning Social Security recipients from buying a gun if they have trouble managing their finances.
About 10 percent of all people 65 and older risked being classified as financially incompetent about 4.2 million in all.
Using the Congressional Review Act, Republicans and two Democrats passed a bill overturning the regulation. But the bill did more than that. It also prevents any future president from reinstituting the ban without new legislative authorization from Congress.
Unfortunately, the spending bill passed Thursday allows the ban to be reinstituted because it reauthorizes the 2007 National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) Improvement Amendments Act. This act allowed government agencies, not just the courts, to determine if someone is mentally incompetent to buy or possess a gun.
House Rules Committee Chairman Pete Sessions, R-Texas, said during testimony late Wednesday that he was disturbed that the bill would undo part of Republicans good work. But by Thursday morning, the House leadership had decided to go ahead with the measure.
Despite the name Fix-NICS, the bill is likely to cause more problems than it is worth.
Criminals are often dumb, but they are rarely so stupid as to buy a gun through a legal background check process. The people who get stopped are law-abiding citizens who simply have similar names to the criminals on the NICS list......
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If Trump fails to VETO this bill he is done.
“banning Social Security recipients from buying a gun if they have trouble managing their finances..........”
Congress has not passed an actual budget for over 20 years. 20 Trillion in debt. Sounds like Congressmen and Senators need to be barred from having a gun.
They don’t. They certainly don’t give us any reason to turn out to vote.
With Republicans in Congress, who needs Democrats??
Sorry, but I do not see how reauthorizing a statute (Fix-NICS) would re-implement a rule (posted by the SSA) that Congress has reversed.
Book Mark
If he signs it, he may as well resign.
I know they are saying one thing, Trump often does another.
Maybe his first veto?
By the time it gets through the senate?
It would not surprise me.
Meanwhile, contact your senators and the White House..
Thats the hand that we have to play.
1, it would be just another illegal law (that many, if not most, Americans will ignore anyway
2. that senior citizens include some folks among those most needing the ability of self-defense.... what with elder abuse and criminals seeking out senior citizens as easier targets for robberies, assaults, etc...................doesn’t mean a thing to congress I guess
3. my neighbor says, if any governmental official ever tries to steal his firearms, he will fire to kill as necessary to protect himself, his family, his home, his property.... not a moment’s hesitation, not upset, not bothered, not worried about it either, “that’s exactly what the firearms are for, just read any American history book”
Yet another data point leading to the conclusion that the GOPe is throwing the midterms to the rats to allow them to impeach President Trump. What would they be doing differently if this were so?
They. Do. Not.
There are conservative expectations when they are in charge - and they are not, not, not conservatives!
They want a globalist leftist nation, but without taking the full blame.
They want impeachment, but without having to carry the vote.
They are our enemies.
We have Trotskyist (Neocon) Rs, Marxist Ds, and... Louis Gohmert (maybe - maybe - a few others).
Most of the GOP are Bush League Republicans hell bent on turning the USA into North Mexico.
We MUST remove them from office.
I don’t pay any attention to signs with Spanish on them.
Everyone is getting worked over in this process, I'm not as worried as most are about the denouement. Thanks richardb72.
A Democrat-majority Congress will finish off the remaining gun owners next year.
I can’t read and don’t understand signage so it’s a mute point with me.
Precisely
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