House Republicans Kill Rule That Applies to 75,000 Too Disabled to Hold a Job or Manage Their Affairs
House Republicans late Thursday afternoon voted to revoke an Obama administration regulation that bans mentally impaired people from owning guns. The Obama administration used the background check system to have the Social Security Administration flag gun purchase inquiries from people receiving social security benefits because they are too severely mentally impaired to hold a job and to manage their personal affairs. CNN describes them as “severely mentally ill.”
75,000 people are affected by the regulation.
The final vote to kill the regulation was 235-180, almost entirely along party lines. Just two Republicans voted to keep the regulation, and six Democrats voted to revoke it. The NRA backed the resolution.
One of the Democrats who fought to save the regulation is Rep. Mike Thompson of California.
“These are not people just having a bad day,” he said on the House floor, as WCVB reports. “These are not people simply suffering from depression or anxiety or agoraphobia. These are people with a severe mental illness who can’t hold any kind of job or make any decisions about their affairs, so the law says very clearly they shouldn’t have a firearm.”
Is your Congress member one of the ones who voted to kill the regulation?Â
Below is the list of those who did, but to make it easier, if your representative is a Republican not Peter King or Dan Donovan of New York, they either voted to kill the regulation or they did not vote. The only Democrats who voted for the resolution are: Bishop (GA), Cuellar, Kind, O’Halleran, Sinema, Walz.
Next step is the Senate, where it’s all but guaranteed to pass. President Trump is expected to sign it. People, including some of the 75,000 the regulation banned from owning guns, will likely die as a result.
Here’s the full list of “ayes.” The congressional voting record is here. You can contact your representative here.
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Abraham Aderholt Allen Amash Amodei Arrington Babin Bacon Banks (IN) Barletta Barr Barton Bergman Biggs Bilirakis Bishop (GA) Bishop (MI) Bishop (UT) Black Blackburn Blum Bost Brady (TX) Brat Bridenstine Brooks (IN) Buchanan Buck Bucshon Budd Burgess Byrne Calvert Carter (GA) Carter (TX) Chabot Chaffetz Cheney Coffman Cole Collins (GA) Collins (NY) Comer Comstock Conaway Cook Costello (PA) Cramer Crawford Cuellar Culberson Curbelo (FL) Davis, Rodney Denham Dent DeSantis DesJarlais Diaz-Balart Duffy Duncan (SC) Duncan (TN) Dunn Emmer Farenthold Faso Ferguson Fitzpatrick Fleischmann Flores Fortenberry Foxx Franks (AZ) Frelinghuysen Gaetz Gallagher Garrett Gibbs Gohmert Goodlatte |
Gosar Gowdy Granger Graves (GA) Graves (LA) Graves (MO) Griffith Grothman Guthrie Harper Harris Hartzler Hensarling Herrera Beutler Hice, Jody B. Higgins (LA) Hill Holding Hollingsworth Hudson Huizenga Hultgren Hunter Hurd Issa Jenkins (KS) Jenkins (WV) Johnson (LA) Johnson (OH) Johnson, Sam Jordan Joyce (OH) Katko Kelly (MS) Kelly (PA) Kind King (IA) Kinzinger Knight Kustoff (TN) Labrador LaHood Lamborn Lance Latta Lewis (MN) LoBiondo Long Loudermilk Love Lucas Luetkemeyer MacArthur Marchant Marino Marshall Massie Mast McCarthy McCaul McClintock McHenry McKinley McMorris Rodgers McSally Meadows Meehan Messer Mitchell Moolenaar Mooney (WV) Mullin Murphy (PA) Newhouse Noem Nunes O’Halleran Olson Palazzo |
Palmer Paulsen Pearce Perry Pittenger Poe (TX) Poliquin Posey Ratcliffe Reed Reichert Renacci Rice (SC) Roby Roe (TN) Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Rohrabacher Rokita Rooney, Francis Rooney, Thomas J. Ros-Lehtinen Roskam Ross Rothfus Rouzer Royce (CA) Russell Rutherford Sanford Scalise Schweikert Scott, Austin Sensenbrenner Sessions Shimkus Shuster Simpson Sinema Smith (MO) Smith (NE) Smith (NJ) Smith (TX) Smucker Stefanik Stewart Stivers Taylor Tenney Thompson (PA) Thornberry Tiberi Tipton Trott Turner Upton Valadao Wagner Walberg Walden Walorski Walters, Mimi Walz Weber (TX) Webster (FL) Wenstrup Westerman Williams Wilson (SC) Wittman Womack Woodall Yoder Yoho Young (AK) Young (IA) Zeldin |
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