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Originally Posted by wdmso
President Trump ended an Obama-era gun law that required background checks to block the sale of guns to people with mental illnesses.
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I'll help you ....this is from snopes because everyone on the left loves snopes...
As we explained in a 17 February 2017 post, this rule —
which never went into effect before being rescinded —
did not change any existing laws regulating who is allowed to purchase guns. It merely would have provided a new way to enforce existing restrictions on gun sales by allowing a transfer of information from one agency to another. There are now, and have been for some time, laws that seek to limit gun sales to anyone “who has been adjudicated as a mental defective or who has been committed to a mental institution” per Title 18 section 922(g) of the United States Code.