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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You have to realize and accept that there is really only one party, the DC UniParty, made up of the Dems and the GOPe. The UniParty is diametrically opposed to. Trump and plans to remove him in 2019 after the GOPe turns over power to the Democrats. Pence will be removed as well and the Democrat Speaker, probably Pelosi, will be elevated to the Oval Office as the first female president. The 2020 elections will be a farce and the DC UniParty will control the reigns of power...until the CW II kicks off.
“No damn it”.....
Perhaps you would like to explain that.......
There is NO WAY the government could know if I managed my funds correctly. My statement said I would use funds, my own, to purchase a gun. Receiving a SS check, when received becomes my own funds. For the third time, “screw the nappy haired dick head”.
They are talking about filing bankruptcy, or have a very low credit score. Come on, I am on your side. I am with you here. You are taking this personally, and that was not my intent. I was talking about them determining someone cannot own a gun because they got into financial trouble resulting in either a low credit score or bankruptcy (that is the only way they could make that determination). Financial meltdowns can occur from a lot of different factors, including identity theft. Totally unconstitutional basis for denying anyone, their 2nd amendment rights.
I agree with your analysis and was NOT being defensive. Before they can restrict me from making a gun purchase “yes” I would have to fall into such a category of funds mismanagement. My finances are well managed, I can assure you. (No harm, no foul).
No need to assure me, that is your business. Nor did I have any concern about your finances throughout the entire discussion, because my responses were never about you personally. Just the unconstitutionality of denying someone their constitutional rights under the 2nd amendment.
Sorry I wasn't more effective in communicating my thoughts. Even I question people at times, just to determine what they actually meant by their statement. So yes, no harm, no foul. Just further communication to nail down understanding. Often time statements offered up are misconstrued. Luckily ours was handled in a mature fashion. 8>)
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