just noticed this bit in the UK Express article I posted in #31 - don’t know why it says “two weeks ago”:
“Just two weeks ago Mr Trump signed a bill into law rolling back an Obama-era regulation that made it harder for people with mental illness to purchase a gun.
The rule meant people receiving social welfare checks for mental illnesses and people deemed unfit to handle their own financial affairs would be added to the national background check database.”
this links to earlier piece:
15 Feb: Newsbusters: Nets Push Fake News Trump Made It Easier for Mentally Ill to Buy Guns
by Nicholas Fondacaro
Fresh off their disinformation campaign in the immediate aftermath of the Parkland, Florida school shooting in which they falsely claimed there had been 18 school shootings this year, the three major network news outlets (ABC, CBS, and NBC) moved on to another fake news topic they wanted to push on the American people: President Trump and the GOP made it easier for mentally ill people to buy guns.
The accusation that a bill designed to remove restrictions and allow the mentally ill to purchase guns was passed by the GOP and signed by President Trump had long been debunked. As the National Review’s Charles C.W. Cooke wrote over a year ago, what got removed was “in layman’s terms: The rule would have allowed bureaucrats within one of our federal agencies to bar American citizens from exercising a constitutional right — and on the highly questionable grounds that to be incapable of managing one’s finances is, by definition, to be a ‘mental defective.’”
And the bill wasn’t even supported by the NRA. But it was supported by the liberal ACLU and the American Association of People with Disabilities. Yet that didn’t stop the networks from pushing lies...
It should be noted that all three of the networks backed off and didn’t repeat the bogus claim about there being 18 school shootings since the start of the year. BUT, all of them left it out there and didn’t correct their reporting from the previous night...
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2018/02/15/nets-push-fake-news-trump-made-it-easier-mentally-ill-buy
Snopes, as usual, plays its part:
Snopes: Did President Trump Revoke Gun Background Checks for Mentally Ill People?
Mostly true
https://www.snopes.com/trump-sign-bill-revoking-obama-era-gun-checks-people-mental-illnesses/
I’m still trying to figure out how he purchased the gun “legally” if he wasn’t 21 years old.