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.
I do not believe this will work for two reasons. One, Trump is going to be President and he promised to repeal all of Obama’s dumb azz tyrannical EO’s. Two If Tump doesn’t win, we will most likely be plunged into a nuclear or civil war, or both. In either case common sense and laws will go out the window.
Would you want to bet it wont work
Pleas read and see how He is trying to take our freedoms away
Obama better hurry if he’s going to do anything. Now Hillary, if elected, may try but, I don’t think she will have the political clout or will to attempt to try any kind of ban let alone confiscation. She will be under a cloud of suspicion and scrutiny by congress for her crimes!
300 million firearms and 12 billion rounds of ammo–now what will the government do when all those gun owners get pissed off–nothing
Lock obama up
Pure nonsense…
GOOD LUCK! TRUE AMERICAN GUN OWNERS VS MUSLIM CORRUPT GOVERNMENT! PARTY TIME AMERICA!
Try it$#%&!@*
If you could you would have done it already$#%&!@*