Posted on 07/18/2015 9:46:09 AM PDT by PROCON
Seeking tighter controls over firearm purchases, the Obama administration is pushing to ban Social Security beneficiaries from owning guns if they lack the mental capacity to manage their own affairs, a move that could affect millions whose monthly disability payments are handled by others.
The push is intended to bring the Social Security Administration in line with laws regulating who gets reported to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, or NICS, which is used to prevent gun sales to felons, drug addicts, immigrants in the country illegally and others.
A potentially large group within Social Security are people who, in the language of federal gun laws, are unable to manage their own affairs due to "marked subnormal intelligence, or mental illness, incompetency, condition, or disease."
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
People are supposed to be adjudicated in court before having any of their rights taken away.
So he just announces it outside of law.
That is 100% illegal.
That’s Nazi language, “sub-normal intelligence”.
This would be a state issue not a federal issue.
Best laugh I’ve had all day. Thanks!
That can't be the controlling verbiage. If that were the law, there wouldn't be a politician in the world who could own a gun.
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