https://waysandmeans.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/ACLU.pdf

On behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), we urge members of theHouse of Representatives tosupport the resolution disapproving the final rule of theSocial Security Administration which implements theNational Instant CriminalBackground Check System Improvement Amendment Acts of 2007.

Additionally we urge members tooppose the resolution of disapproval of the rule submitted by the Department of Defense, the General Services Administration, and NASA relating to the Federal Acquisition Regulationthat implement the Fair Payand SafeWorkplaces Executive Order 13673.Social Security Administration (SSA)’s Implementation of the NICS ImprovementAmendment Acts of 2007Harms People with DisabilitiesInDecember 2016,the SSA promulgated a final rulethatwould require the namesof all Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and Supplemental SecurityIncome (SSI) benefit recipients–who, because of a mental impairment,use arepresentative payee to help manage their benefits–be submitted to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), which is used during gunpurchases.

We oppose this rule because it advances and reinforces the harmful stereotype that people with mental disabilities,a vast and diverse group of citizens,are violent.There is no data to support a connection between the need for a representative payee to manage one’s Social Security disability benefits and a propensity toward gun violence. The rule further demonstrates the damaging phenomenon of “spread,”or the perception that a disabled individual with one area of impairment automatically has additional, negative and unrelated attributes. Here, the rule automatically conflates one disability-related characteristic, that is, difficulty managing money, with the inability to safely possess a firearm.

The rule includes no meaningful due process protections prior to the SSA’stransmittal of names to the NICS database. The determination by SSA line staff thata beneficiary needs a representative payee to manage their money benefit is simply not an “adjudication” in any ordinary meaning of the word. Nor is it adetermination that the person “[l]acks the mental capacity to contract or manage hisown affairs” as required by the NICS. Indeed, the law and the SSA clearly stated  that representative payees are appointed for many individuals who are legally competent.

Last edited by Common Sense (2/05/2017 10:30 am)

Goose wrote:

Are you making an argument of some sort here?
Could you at least clean up your cut and past so that the site you are parroting is readable?

Butt out please..... this is for someone not pushing their anti-gun agenda!!

The article you post had a great big fake news headline.......  So darn sad!!