executive orders on gun control pushed through

[Sam1]

I do not approve.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/01/03/obama-administrations-two-quiet-new-executive-actions-on-who-can-buy-a-gun/

Anyone involuntarily committed to an outpatient mental program would be prohibited. Looks like mandatory counseling could disqualify someone now... I'm guessing this would include drug/alcohol counseling.

[Oh Shoot]

http://www.tngunowners.com/forums/topic/74361-new-executive-actions-on-gun-background-checks/

 

Merge?

 

Actually says in above link that voluntary treatment does not mean prohibited. They say. I trust them. Right.

 

- OS

Edited January 3, 2014 by Oh Shoot

[Randall53]

And not a mouse in the House makes a sound.

[Glenn]

First it says  â€œWhile the vast majority of Americans who experience a mental illness are not violent……..”

but they want to disarm all of them.

[billyscott]

Like so many Government programs they make it sound good in theory but there is great potential for abuse. 

[Mike.357]

the .gov is here to help

[JohnC]

Here it is. At the bottom are links to comment.

http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2014/January/14-ag-002.html

[JohnC]

Posted this in the other thread, too.

The way it is worded here IMHO is a problem:

The revised definition clarifies that the statutory terms “adjudicated as a mental defective” and “committed to a mental institution” include persons who are found incompetent to stand trial or not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect; persons lacking mental responsibility or deemed insane; and persons found guilty but mentally ill, regardless of whether these determinations are made by a state, local, federal or military court. The proposed regulation also clarifies that the statutory term includes a person committed to involuntary inpatient or outpatient treatment.

What the red says to me is a cleverly worded ending that states "regardless" of whether or not a court has adjudicated you as mentally ill (mental disease, mentally ill, lacking mental responsibility,, deemed insane, etc), you can still have your 2A rights denied.

If that is true, this is the most dangerous regulatory addition they could add. Remember, Obamacare will connect your medical records. Doctors already try to trap folks like you go in from an injury and they ask their usual battery of questions probing for any reason to prescribe you drugs like "felt depressed lately, etc."

Also, just imagine how connected medical records are going to be and if you ever had a temporary issue in your life that they feel they want to make you ineligible to purchase guns, that they could revoke your rights because of it.

It's mental health today, tomorrow it'll be physical health. How long before something like Cataracts and Parkinson's will deem you a danger to self and others because you can't see good or shake too much?

Maybe I'm wrong on this, but I do not trust the Govt with anymore power over our rights than they already have.