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House Justice spending bill passes to floor with host of pro-gun riders, ATF spending boost

by Chris Eger

While gun control groups welcomed the prospect the nation's gun regulatory agency would get more money than last year, they balked at pro-Second Amendment riders trimming the agency's reach.

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House passes bill to restore gun rights to Veterans

by Chris Eger

Just a month after its introduction, a House bill to reverse the Department of Veterans Affairs’ practice of reporting some veterans to the FBI’s NICS system has been sent to the Senate.

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House Republicans push to restore gun rights to Veterans

by Chris Eger

Lawmakers have proposed a bill that would reverse the Department of Veterans Affairs' practice of reporting veterans to the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check system.

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Trump signs repeal of Obama-era Social Security gun ban

by Chris Eger

President Donald Trump on Tuesday gave his signature to a Republican-backed resolution reversing a pending rule change that would ban some Social Security recipients from possessing firearms.

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Missing from the Social Security NICS conversation: 4.7 million records

by Chris Eger

With legislation approved by Congress on Wednesday to block a pending rule stripping gun rights from some SSA beneficiaries, a fact often ignored is that it will not have an impact on the millions of records already on file.

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House Votes Social Security Does Not Need to Report Mental Illness to NICS

by Greg Camp

The House has struck down an Obama-administration rule requiring the SSA to report people receiving benefits for a mental disability to the FBI.

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Social Security releases final rule to strip gun rights from some beneficiaries

by Chris Eger

The Social Security Administration has released its final plan of how it will identify some recipients for bans on possessing and acquiring firearms.

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Social Security releases proposed rule to strip gun rights from some beneficiaries

by Chris Eger

The Social Security Administration has released the details of how it proposes to identify some recipients for bans on possessing and acquiring firearms.

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Rand Paul seeks to establish protections for vets, seniors on NICS list

by Chris Eger

The Kentucky Republican has introduced legislation to allow more due process for those reported to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System by the VA and Social Security Administrations.

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Lawmakers want answers why VA stripped 260K vets of gun rights

by Chris Eger

Two Senate Republicans are seeking to understand the VA's practice of reporting veterans to the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check system.

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Town hall: Guns in America

by Greg Camp

Yesterday, CNN hosted a town hall meeting with President Obama on the subject of gun violence and the president's executive orders on gun control.

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Social Security may strip gun rights from 75,000 beneficiaries per year

by Chris Eger

As part of the new executive orders released this week by the White House, the Social Security Administration will move to restrict some recipients from owning firearms.

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