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Gun Control & RKBA

gejohnston

(17,502 posts)

6. the idea is same way the VA does

Reply to gwheezie (Reply #2)

Sun Jul 19, 2015, 06:25 PM

Jul 2015

if someone is assigned to manage your finances for you.
My question is how many people on SSI or SS can afford a gun or a box of shells after paying rent, food etc. It kind of reminds me of the Republicans and their drug testing for welfare recipients and being amazed to find that after paying for necessities, you don't have money left over for intoxicants of any kind.

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Obama pushes to extend gun background checks to Social Security [View all] SecularMotion Jul 2015 OP

Yes, but how many gun control advocates are going to be buying guns? n/t Shamash Jul 2015 #1

I do think if you are incompetent you shouldn't buy a gun gwheezie Jul 2015 #2

the idea is same way the VA does gejohnston Jul 2015 #6

If a SS recipient is suspected of being incompetent and dangerous while in posession of a gun, Eleanors38 Jul 2015 #3

I wonder what the GOP might do with such a precedent? Nuclear Unicorn Jul 2015 #4

Faux News has already dropped the "if they lack the mental capacity…" part n2doc Jul 2015 #5

more than just Faux gejohnston Jul 2015 #7

So a wheelchair would equal easy victim under these rules??? ileus Jul 2015 #8

Post #5 Nuclear Unicorn Jul 2015 #9