Today our firm filed comments on behalf of Gun Owners of America, Inc. and Gun Owners Foundation opposing proposed regulations issued by the Obama Social Security Administration to add more names to the NICS system which would prevent many persons with disabilities from buying firearms.
Our comments explain how the Social Security Administration proposal goes well beyond the limitation that firearm ownership is barred to anyone “who has been adjudicated as a mental defective.” Here, there is no adjudication — but merely a box being checked by a bureaucrat or government contractor. And, there is no determination in no way relates to being a “mental defective.” Lastly, the SSA regulations are at odds with the views of federal courts which have considered the question.