Thread: Obama looks to ban Social Security recipients from owning guns

Obama looks to ban Social Security recipients from owning guns

Published July 19, 2015FoxNews.com


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President Barack Obama waves as he returns to the White House in Washington from a trip to New York, Saturday, July 18, 2015. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)


The Obama administration wants to keep people collecting Social Security benefits from owning guns if it is determined they are unable to manage their own affairs, the Los Angeles Times reported.
The push, which could potentially affect millions whose monthly disability payments are handled by others, is intended to bring the Social Security Administration in line with laws that prevent gun sales to felons, drug addicts, immigrants in the United States illegally, and others, according to the paper.
The language of federal gun laws restricts ownership to people who are unable to manage their own affairs due to "marked subnormal intelligence, or mental illness, incompetency, condition, or disease” – which could potentially affect a large group within Social Security, the LA Times reported.
If Social Security, which has never taken part in the background check system, uses the same standard as the Department of Veterans Affairs – which is the idea floated – then millions of beneficiaries could be affected, with about 4.2 million adults receiving monthly benefits that are managed by “representative payees.”
The latest move is part of the efforts by President Obama to strengthen gun control following the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in 2012.
Critics are blasting the plan, saying that expanding the list of people who cannot own guns based on financial competence is wrongheaded.
The ban, they argue, would keep guns out of the hands of some dangerous people, but would also include people who simply have a bad memory or have a hard time balancing a checkbook.
The background check for gun ownership started in 1993 by the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, named after White House Press Secretary James Brady, who was partially paralyzed after being shot in the 1981 assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan.
Gun stores are required to run the names of potential buyers through a computerized system before every sale.

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Hmm ...... so let's make the elderly easy targets for criminals.

Yes, it is time to admit another deceit of the Constitution caused by outcries of the Reagan administration. The argument never ends, the Constitution is continually offended. Americans look the other way while those offenses occur.

Well I guess we have to put a stop to all those old sr citizens that have been conducting terrorism attacks and mass shootings right?

There is no low Obama won't sink to and disarming our most elderly and vulnerable populations, many of which live in neighborhoods that have transitioned around them into brutality and thuggery, is just the beginning.

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