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House votes to scrap Obama rule on background checks for gun ownership House votes to scrap Obama rule on background checks for gun ownership
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The Republican-controlled House has voted to peel back an Obama administration rule that requires background checks for gun ownership. Lawmakers just struck down an Obama administration rule that attempted to keep guns out of the hands of people who suffer from mental illness.
In an apparent effort to improve gun ownership under President Trump, lawmakers voted Thursday to remove background checks for Social Security recipients mentally incapable of managing their own affairs, the Associated Press reports. The Republican-controlled House voted 235-180 on Thursday in an apparent effort to improve gun ownership under President Trump. The rule affected nearly 75,000 Social Security recipients diagnosed with mental health conditions, such as extreme anxiety and schizophrenia, who are incapable of managing their own affairs.
In his final months in office, President Barack Obama issued the regulations that required the Social Security Administration to relay names of individuals into a database of citizens who are ineligible to purchase a firearm.
“The Obama administration’s last minute, back-door gun grab would have stripped law-abiding Americans of their Second Amendment rights without due process,” Chris Cox, the NRA’s top lobbyist, recently told The Hill.
Thursday marks the first effort by new Congress to peal back regulations on gun sales.
President Obama issued the regulations in his final months in the Oval Office. The checks required the Social Security Administration to relay names of individuals into a database of citizens who are ineligible to purchase a firearm.President Obama issued the regulations in his final months in the Oval Office. The checks required the Social Security Administration to relay names of individuals into a database of citizens who are ineligible to purchase a firearm.