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In 2016, Barack Obama required the Social Security Administration to submit records of mentally disabled people to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, the FBI database used to determine whether someone can buy a firearm under the 1993 Brady Bill. This applied to approximately 75,000 people deemed to be mentally defective.  

On February 28, 2017,  Trump signed a bill to undo Obama’s important executive action, thereby allowing those individuals with mental problems to purchase weapons.   House NRA Representatives voted 235 to 180 and Senate NRA Representatives voted 57 to 43 in favor of voiding these protections. 

Now, these same NRA Representatives are claiming they can’t imagine how the Parkland shooting happened. They will look into it, but, “now is not the time to bring it up.”  “Too soon.” “But, it’s not guns…”

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