PolitiFact.com Gets Obama’s Social Security Gun Grab Proposal Wrong

By Dan Zimmerman

The following is an email blast from NRA-ILA:

A recent Politifact article attempted to fact check news reports about the Obama Administration’s effort to strip the gun rights of millions of Americans who receive Social Security and disability benefits who also have a representative payee – someone who handles their finances. PolitiFact failed to consult the most relevant source of all for their story – federal law. As a result, they got it wrong . . .

Politifact’s website identifies the writer as a “Politifact intern.”

The following PolitiFact claims are FALSE:

“The new policy would not ban all Social Security Administration (SSA) recipients from owning guns. Rather, it would only affect the small fraction who are deemed mentally incompetent, and who are thus are barred from purchasing guns under the law.”

“The policy would not take away guns from people who already own them. There is no indication that this policy would take guns away from people who already own guns. Rather, the policy would affect the ability of some mentally incompetent people from buying new guns.”

The facts:

• Social Security Administration recipients who have a representative payee have not been deemed “mentally incompetent.” That is not a legal term …read more

  Source:: Truth About Guns