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WickedsDesire -> US Senate blocks Obama gun background checks rule (2/15/2017 10:36:38 PM)
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An Obama-era regulation that tightened gun checks on mentally-ill buyers has been blocked by the US Senate and could be signed into law by the White House.
The law stopped people who receive disability benefits from buying guns, affecting an estimated 75,000 people.
But Republicans, who control the Senate, argued it stigmatised the disabled and voted it down 57 to 43.
President Donald Trump is set to approve revoking the rule, his first action on guns since taking power.
It passed the House of Representatives last week.
After the Sandy Hook shooting tragedy which killed 20 children and six adults in 2012, President Barack Obama introduced a measure that required the Social Security Administration to report information on people with mental illness to the FBI.
Adam Lanza, the 20-year-old man who went on a shooting rampage at the elementary school, suffered from a variety of impairments including Asperger's syndrome and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
In an interview with the BBC, Mr Obama said his inability to pass "meaningful" gun legislation was his biggest frustration.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38986147
Whilst I dislike guns and the ~(that funny wee line means approximately for those of you who do not know what it means) means this is the first senate vote I agree with.
Death by gun in America per year is ~35 000 and that is my argument. I don’t doubt for a second most come from unstable minds not registered as disabled
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