that's what he says when he cannot blame the shootings on a brown / black person

Fuck off, Orange Shitgibbon.

Presidents can't do that.

And Congress didn't.

They overturned a regulation that had the SSA inform the NICS of those who were mentally impaired to the extent that they couldn't handle their own finances. So I was my mother's custodian; when the SSA was informed that I would be receiving her checks they were required to inform NICS that she was mentally impaired.

Now, I personally find having the government say that this kind of medical information should be widely spread internally. But that's just me and my predilection for keeping medical information private.

The claim--and I'm in no position to evaluate it--is that all people who cannot conduct their own finances because they're mentally impaired are "mentally ill" in a way that makes them a danger to themselves.

Now, my mother was, and I went through untold phone calls trying to get the police *not* to return the pistol my father committed suicide with to my her. Fortunately my parents set up a trust. I got the cops to delay returning the gun for 7-10 days while I was added as a survivor, and I then convinced the cops and the cops' lawyers that I was at least an acceptable person to hand the gun over to since I was a legitimate representative of the trust, was now in charge of managing it on behalf of my mother, and the gun was properly the property of the trust. The letters from her physicians that she suffered from dementia helped, but only "helped."

However, I can imagine that somebody who cannot manage their affairs could still be trusted to handle a gun in target shooting or for self defense. But that's because I don't know the full range of pathologies and conditions that lead to a finding of incompetence in managing one's own finances.

isnt going to squat about guns..........................