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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo now mentally unstable people can buy guns. Makes even tRump eligible then, yes?
What's next, the heavily medicated? How about trigger finger holes in straight jackets? We have the largest incarcerated population in the world, maybe they can buy guns and guard themselves. What could go wrong there? Think of all the money we could save on correctional officers.
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So now mentally unstable people can buy guns. Makes even tRump eligible then, yes? (Original Post)
Augiedog
Feb 2017
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sarisataka
(18,821 posts)1. Trump never had any problem buying a gun
he even has held one of the near mythical NYC carry permits for years; I suppose in case his bodyguards weren't around.
Money+connections="need"
50 Shades Of Blue
(10,064 posts)2. They always could, when you think about it!
Quackers
(2,256 posts)3. It was a bad law. It didn't allow for due process. nt
jmg257
(11,996 posts)4. Or at least the Social Security Admin won't be reporting them to the FBI for inclusion in the NICS.
Other then that, it's still illegal for some classes of "mentally unstable" people to own guns.