RetiredGySgt
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No Judge NO COURT was involved in that declaration it is simply an administrative decision based on the application for support.Facts.The headline is a BLATANT LIE. The rule made it so if you were assigned by the SS that you could not handle your finances then you are somehow incompetent to own a fire arm. That is NOT severe mental illness at ALL. Get your facts straight before lying to us all.
This order applied only to individuals receiving Social Security benefits through a Representative payee account. From the SSA website.
The law requires most minor children and all legally incompetent adults to have payees.
Social Security Administration - Representative Payee Program
The law requires most minor children and all legally incompetent adults to have payees.
Dangerously Mentally Ill: Federal law prohibits firearm possession by individuals who have been “committed to a mental institution” or “adjudicated as a mental defective.”
Categories of Prohibited People | Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence
So again, you are defending the right of gun sellers to remain ignorant to the fact that their buyer has been adjudicated mentally defective and therefore forbidden from purchasing a gun.
"The law requires most minor children and all legally incompetent adults to have payees".
Are you trying to claim that most minor children are dangerously mentally ill and have been adjudicated mentally defective?
Do you claim that only those who have been adjudicated mentally defective have a representative payee account?
If Federal law is unconstitutional it is invalid.
Yes, that is pretty much what I am saying. First, the minor children are not part of the discussion, unless you want to argue that minor children have a constitutional right to buy firearms.
And yep, every one that as a "representative payee account" has been adjudicated mentally defective, unless they are a minor. Mentally defective and unable to handle their personal finances. This IS NOT great grandmaw that has her check deposited to a shared account with her daughter. This is a SPECIAL account. It requires all kinds of paperwork. The money must be used for specific purposes. Reports have to be filed. And the individual in question is not legally allowed to buy a handgun.