Fellow Conservative,
For months, we have been warning about the expansion of Obama's gun confiscation strategies.
The law is clear. In order to be deemed “mentally deficient,” you need to have been involuntarily committed (forced to stay overnight against your will) in a mental health facility or determined in a court of law to be a danger to yourself or those around you.
There is no wiggle room there. Even though the Left literally wrote this law, they now claim there is a loophole.
What’s the loophole? They are complaining that they don’t have the right to disarm Americans without due process. They want bureaucrats in Washington who you’ve never even met to have the power to REVOKE your 2nd Amendment rights!
Remember how all the pundits said that Barack Obama’s executive orders from this past January were relatively ineffectual? They lied to you.
One of Barack Obama’s executive orders actually instructs the Social Security Administration to copy a Veterans Administration program that used extremely questionable reasoning to disarm American veterans and revoke their 2nd Amendment rights.
The administration has altered the definition of “mental disability” to include any beneficiary who has a “designated payee” assigned to help with managing his or her finances. They did this in the VA and disarmed over 100,000 veterans. Obama saw this and decided to expand the disarmament program to the 49 million social security beneficiaries!
This is how it works. The VA – and now the Social Security Administration – have been instructed to present beneficiaries with the option of having a family member help manage their finances. Plenty of people need help with finances. It doesn’t make them mentally deficient. Even I need a little help making sure all the bills get paid. If it wasn’t for my fiancée, our utility bills probably wouldn’t get paid on time.
So the administration goes out of its way to convince beneficiaries to assign a designated payee to make finances easier for people and then they come back and use that as an excuse to disarm the people.
These people are not a threat to themselves or others. I am talking about people who just need help making sure that their bills get paid on time.
There are plenty of legitimate reasons for someone to need a designated payee. They might not have a car and need a family member to make their bank deposits for them. They might live far away from the bank or grocery store so they delegate that responsibility as well. These are both legitimate reasons listed by the SSA for assigning a designated payee.
So what the Obama administration is saying is that if an elderly American doesn’t own a car and needs help making bank deposits, they can’t be trusted with owning a gun. This is completely illegal!
Brave Congressmen have introduced the Social Security Beneficiary 2nd Amendment Rights Protection Act and it is one paragraph long. It says that being assigned a designated or representative payee cannot be used as an excuse to disarm Americans on Social Security. The bill has 124 co-sponsors and everytime we FaxBlast Congress, that number grows!
Now, whenever we bring this up, people email us and accuse us of fearmongering. They accuse us of “stretching the truth” and trying to make people afraid of something that won’t ever happen.
Just this week, a 74-year old man named Ralph Gilbertson in Minnesota had his guns forcibly confiscated by police. What was their excuse? They said he couldn’t be trusted with guns because he believes in UFOs, Bigfoot, and a vast CIA conspiracy. Gilbertson is a veteran and a concealed carry permit holder, he has a clean record, and he has never been deemed by a court of law to be mentally deficient.
Police showed up at his home and took away his guns because they didn’t like his opinions. The police had absolutely no right to disarm this veteran, but they went ahead with it anyway. Now, he is suing to get his firearms back.
This isn’t an isolated incident, folks. This is just the beginning. You think it’s ridiculous what this local police department did, imagine what it’s going to look like when Obama goes after everyone on Social Security the same way…
If we wait for the next shoe to drop, it will be too late. That is why it is so important to pass the Social Security Beneficiary 2nd Amendment Rights Protection Act. It is one paragraph long and would permanently stop Obama’s gun grab!
Don’t wait until they knock on your door... Don’t wait until it’s your name in the headlines…
Fight back now!
Sincerely,
Max McGuire
Advocacy Director
Conservative Daily
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