Let's Not Forget: Trump Signs Bill Revoking Obama-Era Gun Checks for People With Mental Illnesses

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Feb. 28, 2017 / 7:36 PM CST / Updated Feb. 28, 2017 / 7:39 PM CST

President Donald Trump quietly signed a bill into law Tuesday rolling back an Obama-era regulation that made it harder for people with mental illnesses to purchase a gun.

The rule, which was finalized in December, added people receiving Social Security checks for mental illnesses and people deemed unfit to handle their own financial affairs to the national background check database.

Had the rule fully taken effect, the Obama administration predicted it would have added about 75,000 names to that database.

President Barack Obama recommended the now-nullified regulation in a 2013 memo following the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, which left 20 first graders and six others dead. The measure sought to block some people with severe mental health problems from buying guns.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-signs-bill-revoking-obama-era-gun-checks-people-mental-n727221

[Cha]

1. KR!

[malaise]

2. Get thee to the greatest page

Just the truth

[spanone]

5. I will post this every time there is a mass shooting where a politician mentions 'mental illness'

[malaise]

7. And I will rec it and encourage others to send it to the greatest page

[Ilsa]

3. kick & rec. nt

[dalton99a]

4. Kick

[mopinko]

6. cali has red flag laws. sounds like they should have taken

his guns away a while ago.
he should have gotten a 5150, which would have taken them away.
they let a raging guy stay in a house w his mom, who called the cops repeatedly, and was in great fear for him.
they should have taken his guns for several reasons.

FOLLOW.THE.FUCK.UP.
take family violence seriously.