{"id":1272,"date":"2015-07-21T01:18:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T01:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2015\/07\/21\/saf-rips-plan-to-add-social-security\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:25:43","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:25:43","slug":"saf-rips-plan-to-add-social-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=1272","title":{"rendered":"SAF Rips Plan To Add Social Security Recipients To NICS Database"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:10347,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.saf.org\\\/?p=6770&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20150925055843\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.saf.org:80\\\/?p=6770&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-18 21:02:01&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-23 00:17:18&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-23 00:17:18&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\nAlan Gottlieb and the Second Amendment Foundation didn&#8217;t mince words when they ripped into the proposal to include those who have trouble managing their Social Security checks in the NICS prohibited person database. They make an excellent point when they say that gun control supporters will see nothing wrong with this proposal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saf.org\/?p=6770\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">From the SAF:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i>BELLEVUE, WA \u2013 The Second Amendment Foundation today responded to published reports that the Obama administration is pushing to prevent citizens collecting Social Security benefits from owning guns if they have problems managing their own affairs as proof the president wants to strip as many people as possible of their Second Amendment rights while he remains in office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis could possibly disqualify millions of people from owning firearms and might prevent many others from seeking help,\u201d said SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb, himself a U.S. Army veteran. \u201cIt\u2019s unconscionable that someone who might have problems balancing a checkbook or managing their finances would suddenly find himself or herself stripped of their right to keep and bear arms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The plan, according to the Los Angeles Times, \u201ccould potentially affect millions whose monthly disability payments are handled by others.\u201d The report says this push \u201cis intended to bring the Social Security Administration in line with laws that prevent gun sales to felons, drug addicts, immigrants in the United States illegally, and others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, let\u2019s see,\u201d Gottlieb observed. \u201cThe Obama administration wants to equate some Social Security recipients who own guns with felons, drug addicts and illegal immigrants. That\u2019s not simply insulting, it\u2019s insidious, because who knows where this could lead?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s next,\u201d he wondered. \u201cWill they take away someone\u2019s right to vote, claiming they\u2019re not competent?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Published reports estimated about 4.2 million adults are now receiving monthly Social Security benefits that are managed by someone else, designated as \u201crepresentative payees.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat may seem reasonable to people who reflexively support any and all gun control is really just one more effort by the Obama White House to erode Second Amendment rights any way they can,\u201d Gottlieb stated. \u201cTaking away someone\u2019s Second Amendment rights because they can\u2019t manage their finances is wrongheaded and repugnant.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Gottlieb and the Second Amendment Foundation didn&#8217;t mince words when they ripped into the proposal to include those&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[919,1652,384,1654],"class_list":["post-1272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-nics-checks","tag-prohibited-individuals","tag-second-amendment-foundation","tag-social-security-administration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10401,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions\/10401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}