GOA Sends: Gun Grabs Through Executive Order

[Colonel Dan, SASS #24025]

Obama Administration Trying to
Grab Guns
Through Executive Order

Tell HHS their new regs are crazy

“Gun Owners of America [has] spent the months since Newtown doing tremendous
damage, insisting that expanded background checks will lead to a gun registry.”
- New York Times, April 4, 2013

It’s quite a complement when the New York Times thinks that you are doing
“tremendous damage.” But you can be sure that the other side is not going to go
away quietly.

And sure enough, the Obama Administration is trying to unilaterally undo our
recent victory in the Senate - and to undo the “damage” that all of us inflicted
together.

But first, a little history.

Remember when Senators Pat Toomey, Joe Manchin and Chuck Schumer formed an
unholy alliance during the recent gun battle on Capitol Hill? Remember how
their amendment would have encouraged your psychiatrist to turn you in to the
FBI's gun ban list?

And you remember how we stopped that provision, because over 40 senators
found it to be odious and a violation of the Second Amendment?

Well, guess what? Barack Obama has just concluded that "he don't need no
stinkin’ Senate."

Instead, Secretary Kathleen "ObamaCare" Sebelius - and her Department of
Health and Human Services - has promulgated regulations which would, by
executive fiat, waive all federal privacy laws and encourage you doctor to
report you to the FBI.

Understand a couple of things: First, the standard which your doctor would
use to turn you in is embodied in Clinton-era ATF language and in the anti-gun
Veterans Disarmament Act of 2007. Specifically, you doctor would "drop a dime"
on you if he suspected you were even a slight "danger to yourself of others" or
were "unable to manage your financial affairs."

So if they say you can't balance your checkbook, then you lose your
constitutional rights.

But there's another problem: The day these regulations become law, lawyers
will be lining up to sue "deep-pocket" psychiatrists for every case where they
failed to turn in a patient to NICS - if the patient subsequently engages in a
horrific act.

The bottom line? Any psychiatrist who failed to report all of his patients
to the NICS system risks losing everything if any of them engages in harmful
conduct. Soon the rule of thumb will be: See a shrink; lose your guns.

And the regulations will apply to private, as well as government-employed
psychiatrists.

The bad news is that 165,000 military veterans have already lost their gun
rights because of the “see a VA shrink, lose your gun rights” precedent from the
Clinton-Bush era.

Sadly, what happened to military veterans has now begun in the private sector
- especially in places like New York, after they recently passed their misnamed
SAFE Act.

According to gun rights reporter, Dan Roberts, firearms are now being
confiscated from gun owners because of their mental health information. For
example:

“[John Doe] received a letter from the Pistol Permit Department informing him
that his license was immediately revoked upon information that he was seeing a
therapist for anxiety and had been prescribed an anxiety drug. He was never
suicidal, never violent, and has no criminal history.”

So now taking anxiety pills can result in one’s forfeiting their Second
Amendment rights in New York!

This is where the gun haters want to push their agenda. And this is one
reason why background checks are so dangerous - because they give government
bureaucrats the opportunity to deny law-abiding people their
constitutionally-protected rights.

But the good news is this: The HHS rulemaking is still at an early stage,
and HHS is (no doubt reluctantly) taking the views of the general public.

ACTION: Go to the Federal Register - at

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2013-04-23/pdf/2013-09602.pdf

- and respond to the regs entitled “HIPAA Privacy Rule and the National Instant
Criminal Background Check System (NICS).”

Let the HHS know how you feel about waiving all federal privacy laws for
people who seek counseling.

You may submit your comments at www.regulations.gov

Also, be sure to tell your congressmen that you oppose the “see a shrink,
lose your guns” regs issued by the HHS. Ask him to issue his own comments as
well.

The regs themselves lay out several ways that you may submit your opposition.
The comment period ends on June 7, 2013.

 

[Madd Mike #8595]

this is an important issue we need to address

abuse - abuse, I can see abuse in the system when it becomes law

[Kiowa Kid, SASS #69870L]

Again more good people will hurt by this than bad ones, it's like talking to a brick wall.

 

KK