Who are the Prohibited Possessors on the NICS list?

By Dean Weingarten

The next largest number are those who’ve been adjudicated with a mental health problem. Some 177,000 of the recent numbers are veterans added by the Veterans Administration.

“Mental defectives” account for over 29 percent of the prohibited possessors in the NICS data base. In 2007, only 10.15 percent of prohibited possessors were listed as mental defectives. Under the Obama administration, the number of “mental defectives” in the prohibited possessor list has grown from 518,499 at the end of 2007, and 648,120 at the end of 2008, to 3,774,301. That’s almost a sixfold increase of over three million people.

The Obama administration has said that it wishes to swell those numbers even more, by adding in Social Security recipients who choose to have their financial affairs attended to by someone else. Those numbers are reported to be over four million. The <a class="colorbox" …Read the Rest

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