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Obama looks to ban Social Security recipients from owning guns
FOX News ^ | July 19, 2015

Posted on 07/19/2015 4:48:03 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee

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.

If Social Security, which has never taken part in the background check system, uses the same standard as the Department of Veterans Affairs – which is the idea floated – then millions of beneficiaries could be affected, with about 4.2 million adults receiving monthly benefits that are managed by “representative payees.”

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KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; dva; obama; secondamendment; socialsecurity; tyrant; yesterday
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1 posted on 07/19/2015 4:48:03 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Well, its not like there is a Constitution in
the Caliphate of the White Mosque.


2 posted on 07/19/2015 4:50:37 PM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Step by step, inch by inch...


3 posted on 07/19/2015 4:50:37 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (Falcon 105)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
Or DIE TRYING !
4 posted on 07/19/2015 4:50:49 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Moving the ball further down the slippery slope...


5 posted on 07/19/2015 4:50:56 PM PDT by Regulator
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To: Brad from Tennessee

buy a gun, or,
own a gun?


6 posted on 07/19/2015 4:52:31 PM PDT by RockyTx
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To: Brad from Tennessee

FUBO! I’m so amazed that this scumbum in the White Hut has done, and still doing, more damage to this nation than even the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan could do, combined. Nikita Khruschev is floating somewhere in the ether of the Afterlife laughing at us right now.


7 posted on 07/19/2015 4:55:02 PM PDT by Nowhere Man ("I wish we were back in the world of Andy Williams." - My mother, 1938-2013, RIP)
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To: Yosemitest

From this old guy’s perspective, we might as well be entertained by the huge cultural shifts occurring all around us as there is little we can do to change the zeitgeist of the day. My only hope is that my personal scorecard will be in my favor at the time of my demise. Bring it.


8 posted on 07/19/2015 4:56:35 PM PDT by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: Diogenesis

That’s right; there is no Constitution to protect us any more, but the American people don’t know that.


9 posted on 07/19/2015 4:57:22 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Are they going to get lifetime Secret Service protection, like the activist Muslim in the White Mosque, who can’t handle his own affairs?


10 posted on 07/19/2015 4:58:15 PM PDT by kiryandil (Egging the battleship USS Sarah Palin from their little Progressive rowboats...)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

So veterans on SSN who are disabled like they had a leg blown off and are in a wheel chair won’t be able to defend themselves....

FUBO


11 posted on 07/19/2015 4:58:25 PM PDT by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Buy your guns now and claim that they were lost in a “boating accident”.


12 posted on 07/19/2015 4:58:59 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: Regulator

Yep. Next it will be climate change deniers, and then people who don’t attend gay weddings.


13 posted on 07/19/2015 4:59:53 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
Samuel Whittemore (July 27, 1696 - February 2, 1793) was an American farmer and soldier. He was 78 years of age when he became the oldest known colonial combatant in the American Revolutionary War (1775–83).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Whittemore

Battles of Lexington and Concord

On April 19, 1775, British forces were returning to Boston from the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the opening engagements of the war. On their march, they were continually shot at by colonial militiamen.

Whittemore was in his fields when he spotted an approaching British relief brigade under Earl Percy, sent to assist the retreat. Whittemore loaded his musket and ambushed the British Grenadiers of the 47th Regiment of Foot from behind a nearby stone wall, killing one soldier. He then drew his dueling pistols and killed a grenadier and mortally wounded a second. By the time Whittemore had fired his third shot, a British detachment reached his position; Whittemore drew his sword and attacked. He was shot in the face, bayoneted numerous times, and left for dead in a pool of blood.

He was found by colonial forces, alive, trying to load his musket to fight again. He was taken to Dr. Cotton Tufts of Medford, who perceived no hope for his survival. However, Whittemore lived another 18 years until dying of natural causes at the age of 96.

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Obama-Lied would take away Samuel Whittemore's gun in a heartbeat.

14 posted on 07/19/2015 5:02:46 PM PDT by kiryandil (Egging the battleship USS Sarah Palin from their little Progressive rowboats...)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

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”

“condition or disease” could mean just about damned near ANYTHING!!!!

Are you OLD and on social Security?

Have a chronic case of allergies, NO GUN FOR YOU!

Just came down with cancer, NO GUN FOR YOU!

Do you have Arthritis, NO GUN FOR YOU!

Disagree with the liberal Administration and refused to answer if you have a gun in your house so their state hack shrink diagnosed you with Oppositional Defiance Disorder, NO GUN FOR YOU!


15 posted on 07/19/2015 5:03:14 PM PDT by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: Moonman62

[ Yep. Next it will be climate change deniers, and then people who don’t attend gay weddings. ]

Well “denial” is a “Condition” and “intolerance” is a “condition” too....


16 posted on 07/19/2015 5:04:13 PM PDT by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

That is racist!


17 posted on 07/19/2015 5:06:45 PM PDT by Reno89519 (American Lives Matter! US Citizen, Veteran, Conservative, Republican. I vote. Trump 2016.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
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

Not to mention 90% of liberals.

18 posted on 07/19/2015 5:11:09 PM PDT by Toddsterpatriot ("Telling the government to lower trade barriers to zero...is government interference" central_va)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Bookmarked.


19 posted on 07/19/2015 5:17:24 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono
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To: Brad from Tennessee
I invite your attention to a study of some of the terms that Adolf Hitler used to describe segments of the German populace that he deemed unfit to breathe Aryan air. Sub-normal, sub-human, etc.

I don't know if Obama is trying to prod America into violent reaction as a pretext to declare martial law, of if he just simply going insane.

20 posted on 07/19/2015 5:18:40 PM PDT by jimbug
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