Obama Proposes Massive Gun Ban by Regulation Fiat

GOA prepares legislation to block implementation.

Obama Hates Guns
Obama Proposes Massive Gun Ban by Regulation Fiat
Gun Owners of America
Gun Owners of America

Washington, DC –-(Ammoland.com)- In a “Friday media dump” designed to conceal its actions by releasing them after the press has left town, the Obama administration last week announced its intention to push two regulations which would massively expand the federal gun bans imposed on Americans.

“SEE A SHRINK; LOSE YOUR GUNS”

The first proposal — from HHS — would effectively say that federal health privacy laws (HIPAA) do not apply to the Second Amendment.

This isn’t the first time Obama has stuck his leering eyeballs into Americans’ medical records and private affairs.  From its Orwellian government database on Americans’ health records to its voracious seizure of Americans’ phone records, the Obama administration can’t trample our personal privacy fast enough.

But HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’ efforts to turn over personal mental health information to the government’s gun ban blacklist (NICS) is particularly loathsome.

Not to be outdone in the Sebelius/Holder “Mutt and Jeff act,” Attorney General Eric Holder — currently being pursued for contempt of Congress — intends to seize guns from persons subject to “outpatient commitments (even without a court order) (and) … someone (deemed by some bureaucrat to be) lacking mental responsibility or deemed insane…”

More than 150,000 law-abiding veterans have already lost their constitutional rights — with no due process whatsoever — because they consulted a VA therapist about a traumatic incident in Iraq, Afghanistan, or the Balkans.

Under these new regulations, tens of millions of police and firemen with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder — or people who, as kids, were diagnosed with Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder — could lose their constitutional rights without any court order, merely because they sought a benefit under a federal program.

And you want to know the hidden agenda behind DOJ’s “commitment” language?  We have a member in a rabidly anti-gun state.  Many years ago, he was picked up by police and, without the approval of any court, sent to a mental facility overnight for “observation.”  The mental facility found no mental problems and promptly released him.

However, many years later, as a result of that state’s anti-gun crackdown (which Holder is now trying to emulate), his name has been sent to the NICS system.  He has lost his constitutional rights, and it will cost him tens of thousands of dollars (which he does not have) to get them back.

We believe this is unlawful under current law.  But it will probably not be unlawful by the end of Holder’s regulatory proceedings.

What does Sebelius have to say about this?  Well, she is surprisingly flip:

“There is a strong public safety need for this information to be accessible to the NICS, and some states are currently under-reporting or not reporting certain information to the NICS at all.”

And this from the White House:  “…when persons with a mental illness do not receive the treatment they need, the result can be tragedies such as homicide or suicide.”

But herein lies the problem:  When Americans with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Attention Deficit Disorder realize that nothing they say to their therapist is really confidential, they’re not going to be seeking treatment for very long.

But there’s an even more fundamental problem:  Last winter, Barack Obama decided that he would devote the first half of 2013 to the destruction of what he and his supporters characterized as “the gun manufacturers’ lobby.”  Tens of millions of Americans let their senators and representatives know that they found Obama’s views and Obama’s legislation to be odious and offensive.  As a result, it was rejected in the Democrat-controlled Senate.

So now, as has happened so many times before, Obama has set himself “above the law.”  What could not be done using constitutional processes is now being slammed through by regulatory fiat.

The Justice Department and HHS regulations will now be submitted for “public comment and review.”  But, as with everything else Holder and Sebelius do, this is little more than a sham.

Rather, our efforts will be to get Congress to defund these unconstitutional efforts.  And we will start by submitting proposed legislation to friendly senators and representatives.

ACTION:  Click here to contact your senators and representative.  Ask them to cosponsor and support legislation which will block Barack Obama’s unconstitutional gun bans.

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Kyheadhunter

Maybe this might work in large cities like Chicago, New York, and Washington DC, but who or what will enforce the law in rural areas. Obama might have to call in the UN for help. I’m sure Iran, ISIS would be more than happy to lend a hand to help.

Mike11C

Does anyone know how many military personnel and police officers have seen a shrink? Every member of the military must sit down with a shrink upon returning from a deployment to a combat zone and, every police officer who is involved in a shooting is also required to see a shrink before he/she is cleared to go back to regular duty.

Buck

When are the progressive scum that elected him going to wake up and realize their ” Messiah ” has turned out to be a ” DEMON ” straight from the bowels of hell itself ?

joe

never, t hey want this messia to lead them to the bowels of hell ,and that’s what there going to get,

paper

Crazy people who own guns? We can’t have this!!

And, we can’t have anyone who’s seen a shrink owning a gun.
This should also be extended to lawmakers or anyone holding public office.. How can we trust crazy people to make laws??

Oh, and school crossing guards..

Maybe we should have laws against making more laws??

ChicagoGuy

NRA lobbyist for IL Todd Vandermyde wrote the UNLIMITED privacy waiver for Rep. Brandon Phelps HB183 carry bill: “a waiver of the applicant’s privacy and confidentiality rights and privileges under ALL federal and state laws, including those limiting access to juvenile court, criminal justice, psychological, or psychiatric records or records relating to any institutionalization of the applicant, and an affirmative request that a person having custody of any of these records provide it or information concerning it to the Department;” This is the “good” carry bill from the NRA! Chris Cox & Chuck Cunningham need to put a leash on… Read more »

Free Tennessee

There is a war of attrition is being waged on THE Document that outlines the people’s rights and protects them from the Government- there can be no doubt.The end result for those who do not resist is a spot on your knees with your fingers laced behind your head facing a mass grave. Do not be fooled by semantics and buzzwords used by the media and Constitutional revisionist. This is the only thing anyone should be paying attention to right.

me

I will never seek the assistance of a medical professional again.

We The People

Burn all the treasonous bastards before they burn us.