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.
Don’t need them
and then the so called government will disappear
Is it worth your life???
It is time for us to form militias to fight the UN when they try to take our guns!
Yo$#%&!@*obama, doesnt your monkey looking$#%&!@*know how easy it is to make a gun yourself. Very easy and cant be tracked you$#%&!@*and deadly too so watch out
so true—Jackie Willis—they are going to use every dirty –underhanded trick in the book–they are going to withhold Social Security Benefits—Veterans Pensions–they are going to sieze bank accounts —they are going to demand you get a chip in your hand —or No Social Security Check—no Medical care—we ain’t seen nothing yet—I just Thank God every day that I live that I don’t have any small children or Grandchildren—we are going to see all Hell break loose on this planet—Do I believe that Jesus is coming again ? Do I believe there will be a Rapture of the Church—Sure do–but I can tell you right now —everybody who thinks that we are going to float out of here on flowery beds of ease before it gets rough is in for a rude awakening
Watch , the day will come when he takes the guns away from Law Enforcement.. I say to the people who voted for him, you got what you ask for.
nope
Baloney
Eat me