GOA and HIPPA and NICS

[Virgil Ray Hality, SASS# 37355]

The GOA sent out email asking people to contact their elected officials about an executive order. Basically this would allow just about any organization to send health records/advisory to NICS to prohibit people from acquiring firearms.

 

Please respond to that email or the links below. Post a comment on the regulations.gov web site. The text to object to is: "Among the persons subject to the Federal mental health prohibitor are individuals who have been involuntarily committed to a mental institution; found incompetent to stand trial or not guilty by reason of insanity; or otherwise have been determined by a court, board, commission, or other lawful authority to be a danger to themselves or others or to lack the mental capacity to contract or manage their own affairs, as a result of marked subnormal intelligence or mental illness, incompetency, condition, or disease."

 

This is BS and nobody should have their civil rights stripped by a "board", "commission" or "other lawful authority". That is just too loose!

 

 

All Heck is Breaking Loose!

 

“The real agenda of the gun-hating Obama administration is to strip gun rights from law-abiding Americans ....” -- GOA’s Legislative Counsel Michael Hammond, The Washington Times (1/7/14)

 

Four issues in which you have been heavily involved have come or are coming to a head this week.

 

We are putting out this emergency alert to keep you apprised of the fast-moving legislative landscape.

 

HHS REGULATIONS: See a Shrink, Lose your Guns

 

GOA's campaign against Obama's war on individual privacy is beginning to really catch fire. Our article in The Washington Times is being widely circulated by other pro-gun groups and can be read here.

 

And, although we will probably not have a vehicle for defunding this Executive Action -- until the individual appropriations bills begin to move in May -- we are optimistic that a majority of senators and House members will oppose this effort to partially repeal federal privacy laws, called HIPAA.

 

As you probably know, the proposed regulations would repeal HIPAA insofar as necessary to allow psychiatrists to turn their patients into the FBI's NICS list -- all as a result of personal information, communicated in private.

 

This would massively expand the ability of the federal government to impose federal gun bans on otherwise law-abiding Americans.

 

Or as we at GOA have said: These regulations would result in a situation where if you “see a shrink, you lose your guns." But now a wide variety of others are beginning to take notice.

 

Go here to read the comments that GOA submitted to HHS in opposition to their recent, anti-gun regulations.

And go here to submit your own comments on or before March 10, 2014.