When President Obama announced his executive order laying the groundwork for gun control regulations, many heaved a sigh of relief that it was not more stringent or far reaching. And it is true that he could have been much more direct and authoritarian, but that would have invited immediate legal challenges, so the initiative is more subtle, but devious none the less.
Obama just created a system that will grow and spread to the states, and it will have the ability to establish a gun registry and prohibit hundreds of thousands, even millions, from the ability to buy a gun. Obama opined that federal federal anti-gun legislation will not happen during his presidency, but his actions will have the same effect.
The Gun Control Act of 1968 prohibits those who have been involuntarily committed or determined to be “mentally defective” from buying a gun. Subsequent legislation adds to the list “those who lack the mental capacity to contract or manage their own affairs,” even if that person does not represent a threat to anyone else. The National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) “mental defective file” currently includes about 150,000 individuals, including veterans who were not able to manage their own financial affairs. All of these individuals are precluded from owning a gun, even though there was no indication that they had a propensity for hurting someone.
Here is where Obama’s proposal becomes dangerous. The practice of placing someone on this list was arbitrary and did not even allow a hearing, but the total number of individuals on the list was fairly small. As a result of the president’s new orders, the Health and Human Services Department announced that it will modify the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and allow state health agencies to disclose personally identifiable information about “mentally defective” individuals directly to the NICS.
Craig Williams Psychologically project much, comrade?
I wish they would. They will find out the sheep are actually wolves and lions that won’t be led to slaughter.
Ummm no.
NOBODY is coming for your guns! Go out and enjoy all your perfectly intact freedoms and our beautiful, diverse, free country! (Except Elvis! Elvis is coming for your guns!)
BREAKING: Ammon and Ryan Bundy not guilty for conspiracy and firearms charge,
http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/crime/verdict-near-in-malheur-wildlife-refuge-standoff-trial/
It would be impossible. When they found out people would resist whoever came to collect the guns and then when Americans saw they were attacking gun owners with force to try and take their guns well you can see how that would go. I think the revolution would probably start. It would be the proverbial final straw.
Obama is responsible for many AR-15 sales. Him and those that think like him are responsible for our current “arms race” in America. Don’t believe it look at gun sales since he took office. He has made many of us afraid for our freedom and those fears are justified. Those of us who are willing to stand up went out and bought up. When you constantly threaten peoples basic rights it makes them nervous and given the situation with the traitor understandable.
The article is misleading.There are no plans to confiscate guns. It is already illegal for the mentally ill and criminally violent to own guns,even those on Social Security.Nothing has changed,except an improvement in the way they are tracked.I suppose there are a lot of people who don`t see a problem with mentally ill or violent people owning guns,but a lot of people do.If a person is afraid of losing their gun,there may be a reason why they shouldn`t have one.
Omg
Randy Wood I didn’t know one human being could have so much control over others as you gun rights freaks think Obama has over the people of the US. I just be willing to bet Jesus wishes he had that coto ntrol. I bet God wishes he that much control which is where you get your right even breathe let alone any kind of right you think you have to own a gun. And is a traitor that tries to protect the very people he was sworn to protect, that was elected to uphold the very Constitution they so vehemently want to follow when it suits them but not to provide basic protection to the rest of the people under that same Constitution (14th amendment). No one wants your gun, just better control of those unneeded weapons of mass destruction. You want to own a deer rifle, buy one that requires some skill to operate not just a finger to pull the trigger a spray 50 rounds into a room full of people. That’s a wartime weapon,not one for self protection.