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<blockquote data-quote="PT Stewie" data-source="post: 3387582" data-attributes="member: 12889">That joint resolution didn’t affect all “people with severe mental illness,” as Kimmel’s comment may have suggested. It rescinded a <a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/12/19/2016-30407/implementation-of-the-nics-improvement-amendments-act-of-2007" target="_blank">Social Security Administration rule</a> requiring the agency to report to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System disability applicants unable to manage their finances due to a mental health condition.The rule applied to “a narrow group of people who have been determined by the Social Security Administration to lack the capacity, on the basis of a mental disorder, to manage their affairs, specifically their benefit payments,” wrote <a href="http://smartgunlaws.org/about/our-team/" target="_blank">Lindsay Nichols</a>, federal policy director for the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, in <a href="https://waysandmeans.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/20170207SS-Testimony-Nichols.pdf" target="_blank">testimony to Congress</a> in February 2017. &nbsp;&nbsp;Under <a href="https://www.atf.gov/firearms/identify-prohibited-persons" target="_blank">federal law</a>, individuals “committed to any mental institution” or “adjudicated as a mental defective” by a court, board, commission or other lawful authority are prohibited from purchasing or possessing a gun.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="PT Stewie, post: 3387582, member: 12889"] That joint resolution didn’t affect all “people with severe mental illness,” as Kimmel’s comment may have suggested. It rescinded a [URL='https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/12/19/2016-30407/implementation-of-the-nics-improvement-amendments-act-of-2007'][U]Social Security Administration rule[/U][/URL] requiring the agency to report to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System disability applicants unable to manage their finances due to a mental health condition. [B]The rule applied to “a narrow group of people[/B] who have been determined by the Social Security Administration to lack the capacity, on the basis of a mental disorder, to manage their affairs, specifically their benefit payments,” wrote [URL='http://smartgunlaws.org/about/our-team/'][U]Lindsay Nichols[/U][/URL], federal policy director for the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, in [URL='https://waysandmeans.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/20170207SS-Testimony-Nichols.pdf'][U]testimony to Congress[/U][/URL] in February 2017. Under [URL='https://www.atf.gov/firearms/identify-prohibited-persons'][U]federal law[/U][/URL], individuals “committed to any mental institution” or “adjudicated as a mental defective” by a court, board, commission or other lawful authority are prohibited from purchasing or possessing a gun. [/QUOTE]

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