The Social Security Administration is proposing a new rule to block some people unable to work because of mental health disorders from buying guns – a move the NRA is bitterly opposing as a violation of their 2nd Amendment rights.
According to The Hill, the SSA plan to report people who get disability benefits and have a mental health condition to the FBI for background checks stems from a memorandumPresident Barack Obama issued in 2013.
The rule is to appear in the Federal Register, The Hill reports.
Similar efforts to keep guns out of the hands of the mentally ill by the Department of Veterans Affairs were criticized by Iowa GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley, who claims 99 percent of the people the FBI prohibits from owning guns because they are considered “mentally defective” come from the VA, The Hill reports.
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