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#Obama To Ban Guns From 4. 2 Million Social Security Recipients In Massive Gun Grab - Bearing Arms - Barack Obama, Gun Confiscation, Gun Control, Social Security Administration

The liberty-hating Obama Administration isn t coming for your guns, except when they are :

Seeking tighter controls over firearm purchases, the Obama administration is pushing to ban Social Security beneficiaries from owning guns if they lack the mental capacity to manage their own affairs, a move that could affect millions whose monthly disability payments are handled by others.

The push is intended to bring the Social Security Administration in line with laws regulating who gets reported to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, or NICS, which is used to prevent gun sales to felons, drug addicts, immigrants in the country illegally and others.

A potentially large group within Social Security are people who, in the language of federal gun laws, are unable to manage their own affairs due to marked subnormal intelligence, or mental illness, incompetency, condition, or disease.

But critics including gun rights activists, mental health experts and advocates for the disabled say that expanding the list of prohibited gun owners based on financial competence is wrongheaded.

Though such a ban would keep at least some people who pose a danger to themselves or others from owning guns, the strategy undoubtedly would also include numerous people who may just have a bad memory or difficulty balancing a checkbook, the critics argue.

Someone can be incapable of managing their funds but not be dangerous, violent or unsafe, said Dr. Marc Rosen, a Yale psychiatrist who has studied how veterans with mental health problems manage their money. They are very different determinations.

Roughly 2.7 million of those receiving SSA benefits have mental health concerns, but according to the L.A. Times. 1.5 million others have their finances managed for others reasons, yet would still be targeted by Obama s gun grab.

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This broad brush approach appeals to the Obama Administration because it will deny gun rights to the largest possible segment of Americans possible by executive fiat, with little recourse for those affected. It amounts to extortion, telling people they must give up their Second Amendment rights, or else loose government benefits.