February 28, 2017: Trump Signs Bill Revoking Obama-Era Gun Checks for People With Mental Illnesses

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FEB 28 2017

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

[Wwcd]

1. Feb 2017. He wasted no time rewarding his criminal organization

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3. gotta pay those that got him elected....

chuck fucking grassley was just on m$nbc saying 'we haven't done a very good job keeping people with mental illness from getting guns'

goddamn him

[NewJeffCT]

2. We need to hang it around Trump's neck

like an anchor

[Blue_Tires]

4. It would be nice if someone made him answer for it

but he banned media from the signing and he hasn't given a press conference of any sort in 367 days...