GOP Votes To End Obama Rule Designed To Keep Mentally Ill From Buying Guns

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17. The SSA Doesn't Get to Make Laws

This rule said one thing, and one thing only: that recipients of SSID and SSI funds, which are dispersed by the SSA, who had been assigned a representative payee due to mental incompetence should have their names sent to NICS as prohibited persons.

Although the SSA claims that anyone who has been assigned a representative payee has been declared mentally incompetent by a court, there's no proof that this is the case. There's also no support for a claim that those so declared incapable of managing their funds are dangerously mentally ill. There are likely thousands of mentally ill SSID and SSI recipients who are capable of managing their money and therefore not on the list. No other mentally ill people get their names sent to NICS unless they've been adjudicated mentally incompetent by a court of law or have been involuntarily committed to a mental institution, in accordance with 18 USC 922(g). This law is still in effect.

When ACLU and ARC is against the rule, that should tell you that it's a bad rule.