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NM: Legislature, U.S. Congress Diverging on Gun Sale Background Checks
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Website: http://libertyparkpress.com
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A House committee on Saturday advanced a bill that would expand required background checks to include most gun purchases in New Mexico. After a hearing that lasted more than three hours, the Consumer and Public Affairs Committee voted 3-1 along party lines in favor of House Bill 50, sponsored by Rep. Stephanie Garcia Richard, D-Los Alamos. The committee’s action mirrored that of a Senate panel that last week approved an identical proposal, Senate Bill 48. |
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"The U.S. House of Representatives last week voted 235-180 to scuttle an Obama-era rule requiring background checks for gun purchases by some Social Security recipients with mental disabilities."
The 'rule' didn't require background checks on certain SS recipients, they already are required by federal law. What it did was bureaucratically classify those whose finances are managed by a surrogate as mentally defective and presumed dangerous, and require entering them in the NICS database to prevent them from owning or purchasing firearms, all without due process of law.
The deliberate misrepresentation of this issue by this publication is shameful and egregious. |
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