The House protest resolution passed yesterday, but in the final few days of Obama's presidency, the SSA pressed through the final regulations. As things now stand, if you get any assistance if filling out forms or allowing another person to manage benefits along with you (perhaps a spouse or lawyer), The Justice Department will be notified and you will become a federal felon for possessing or seeking to purchase most firearms. They did set up an appeal process, but you now have a whole new layer of bureaucracy to fight, and this becomes a denial of constitutional rights without ever having a single day in court or ever having a doctor diagnose a mental illness, much less a significant danger of harming anyone. You will however; become far more vulnerable to crime because your potential assailant will have many advantages over you, your family, and your possessions. This agency regulation can be halted immediately by President Trump. But there has not been much knowledge or discussion of this failure of due process. It's up to all of us to communicate with clarity and ernest passion about the importance of due process. Here is Congressman Murphy's newsletter column on the matter, and the efforts he's making to end this policy immediately. |
If you're confused by social security disability forms, you might lose your gun rights. The Obama Administration came up with a reasoning for telling the Social Security Administration to flag any confused senior or applicant for disability benefits, who requests extra assistance with understanding the forms and process; may be to be deemed mentally defective and therefor a serious public safety risk. This order would direct clerical staff at the Social Security Administration to flag that applicant and have their name added to the national instant check(NICS), so they could no longer make most firearms purchases. |
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