Obama looks to ban Social Security recipients from owning guns

[priell3]

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.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015...m-owning-guns/

[Hokkmike]

I'll bet the Obama aid who thought this up gets a bonus and paid Hawaii time. The problem is not with denying the mentally incompetent RKBA. The problem is how to qualify that and how far they will s-t-r-e-t-c-h this policy.

AND....how many people from nursing homes and etc., whose kids or guardian handle their money as a necessity or CONVENIENCE for them, are roaming the streets with guns? Fixing a problem that doesn't exist is a pretense in working towards the bigger goal of large scale gun control. This constitutes rule by the Presidential phone and pen ladies and gentlemen!

Not smelling good.....

[PocketProtector]

And Muslim Terriorists get Nukes. Sounds correct for a Muslim Brotherhoodist

[tlnzz1]

A "solution" to a problem that doesn't exist. What are the statistics for older people actually using a firearm in an offensive situation? My guess is statistically nil.

[DavidTM]

Oh...shit...I'm fucked.

[streaker69]

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