Social Security Gun Ban

Democrat presidential hopeful Joe Biden’s gun control proposals could mean reviving the Obama gun ban that barred certain Social Security recipients from buying firearms.

U.S. Reps. Phil Roe (R-TN) and Collin Peterson (D-Minn.) introduced legislation last week prohibiting the Veterans Administration from interfering with a veteran’s Second Amendment rights because that vet needs help managing finances.

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) sent President Donald Trump a letter Tuesday to urge the repeal of the gun ban for military veterans.

From the moment President Trump hit the campaign trial till now he has been a vocal supporter of the people’s right to keep and bear arms.

On April 28, NRA-ILA’s Chris Cox lauded President Trump’s first 100 days for bolstering the Second Amendment and the exercise of the rights it protects.

Gabby Giffords’ gun control group Americans for Responsible Solutions (ARS) is urging opposition to a repeal of the gun ban for military veterans.

While rolling back onerous Obama-era environmental and business regulations, President Donald Trump has also been quietly dropping gun controls which were either put in place or at least prolonged by the Obama administration.

On March 17 NPR reported that the GOP-led House was helping “mentally incapacitated’ veterans get guns via the passage of the Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act.

With the Social Security gun ban repealed and the lead ammunition ban revoked, the GOP-led House is now eyeing a repeal of the gun ban for U.S. military veterans. The gun ban for military veterans works in the same way

During the March 7 airing of MSNBC’s On The Record with Greta, host Greta Van Susteren suggested the Trump and GOP-led repeal of the Social Security gun ban make it easier for the mentally ill to buy guns.

On February 28, President Trump signed the repeal of Barack Obama’s Social Security gun ban. On March 2, SELF magazine reported that Trump had ended firearm background checks for persons who were severely mentally ill.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke signed a Secretarial Order repealing the lead ammunition ban issued the day before Barack Obama left office.

On Tuesday, President Trump signed the repeal of Barack Obama’s gun ban for Social Security recipients. On Thursday, NBC News reported that Trump had signed a repeal of “gun checks for people with mental illness.”

On a day when legislation benefiting women and black colleges and universities was signed with much pomp and circumstance, President Trump quietly followed through on his pledge to defend the Second Amendment by signing the repeal of Barack Obama’s Social Security gun ban.

The New York Times, the New York Daily News, and The Huffington Post are responding to the Senate vote to repeal the Social Security gun ban by accusing GOP lawmakers of helping the mentally ill get guns.

The Senate voted to repeal Barack Obama’s Social Security gun ban on Feburary 15. This followed the House of Representatives vote to repeal the same gun ban on February 2.

On February 13–one day before the GOP-led Senate is expected to vote for a repeal of Barack Obama’s Social Security gun ban–the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence freaked out and called the ban a “lifesaving policy.”

Duke University psychiatry and behavioral science professor Jeffrey Swanson says Congress is right to repeal Barack Obama’s Social Security gun ban because it targets the “vulnerable” rather than the dangerous.

On February 10 the St. Louis Post-Dispatch used the example of the Sandy Hook Elementary attack to argue for preserving Barack Obama’s Social Security gun ban.

A liberal disability rights activist who “worked closely with the Clinton campaign” and opposes President Trump says House Republicans and the NRA are correct in pushing for a complete repeal of Barack Obama’s Social Security gun ban. The activist, Ari Ne’eman,

Last week’s House vote to repeal Barack Obama’s Social Security gun ban sparked a fake news onslaught as media tried to depict the repeal as something that armed dangerous citizens.

In the latest example of fake news coming from the mainstream media or those favorable to it, Bloomberg is reporting that House Republicans’ vote to repeal the Social Security gun ban is equivalent to a vote for “guns for the mentally incompetent.”

On Thursday, the U.S. House voted to revoke Obama’s Social Security gun ban, but Politico reported that the House voted “to rescind Obama gun background check rule.”

On Thursday the U.S. House passed H.J. Res. 40, a joint resolution to revoke the Social Security gun ban enacted by the Obama administration on December 19.

With Republican Representatives undertaking efforts to repeal Obama’s Social Security gun ban, Bloomberg is reporting the ban “was a reaction to school shootings like the 2012 Sandy Hook attack.”

GOP leaders will use a fast-track congressional process to kill an anti-gun regulation issued by former President Barack Obama shortly before he left office.

On January 25 Gun Owners of America (GOA) released a list of Obama-era gun controls which President Trump can undo.

Congress plans to take up legislation next week that is designed to block Barack Obama’s gun ban for Social Security recipients who require help with their finances.

On Monday the Obama administration finalized a Social Security gun ban that could prevent “tens of thousands” of law-abiding elderly citizens from purchasing guns for self-defense.

President-Elect Donald Trump won on November 8 after running a pro-gun campaign focused on defending and upholding the Second Amendment.

On June 7, Gun Owners of America (GOA) released a statement alerting Americans that Obama is taking your grandpa’s guns.

Republican Senators are moving to block an Obama gun ban that will otherwise prevent over a quater of a million military veterans from owning guns. The gun ban for veterans is being handled the same way as Obama’s gun ban

Although numerous combat veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan need treatment for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) many are increasingly hesitant to pursue treatment because they fear a prognosis of PTSD will be used to deny their gun rights under the Obama administration.

On February 9 President Obama released his 2017 budget proposal and it contains “billions for gun control.”