Social Security Administration recipients who have a representative payee have not been deemed “mentally incompetent.†That is not a legal term recognized in federal law as it relates to prohibitions against acquiring or possessing firearms.
The federal prohibitions against acquiring or possessing firearms apply to those “adjudicated as a mental defective.â€
Under the proposed new policy, individuals who have representative payees would lose the right to possess any guns they might currently own and would be prohibited from purchasing new firearms. (This is being pursued as new policy by Obama. Anyone who, for whatever reason receiving disability benefits who has a representative payee/trustee of sorts will have his./her guns taken!!!)
The term “adjudication,†refers to a determination made after a judicial-type process that includes various due process protections. In no case does the federal law describe or contemplate the type of prohibition by bureaucratic fiat exercised by the SSA in developing its guidelines for those with “representative payees†assigned to their accounts.
From what source did you copy this from?
It has those crazy, worthless symbols indicating that the text hasn’t been washed.
(Furthermore, when is this website going to correct this problem? Many of us contribute good money to the maintenance of Free Republic.)