Washington Free Beacon reporter Stephen Gutowski appeared on the NRA News show Cam & Co. on Thursday to discuss a proposal by the Social Security Administration (SSA) to add some of its recipients to a federal gun background check system.
The SSA was planning to add millions of beneficiaries, those who have designated somebody else to manage their finances. The agency has said how many people they are going to add or how they are going to do it. After Sandy Hook shooting President Obama issued a number of executive orders, one of the orders was to have all federal agencies comb through the records and have those records be added to the National Instant Background Check System (NICS).
"Right now Social Security does not add names to the background check system and the letter indicates that they are going to," Gutowski said on NRA News.
The National Rifle Association (NRA) was unhappy with the letter and said they would fight to prevent abuse of the background check system.
"The Obama administration will stop at nothing to strip as many people as possible of their Second Amendment rights through executive action," said Jennifer Baker, spokeswoman for the NRA. "We know that the Veterans Affairs Department is denying people their constitutional rights based on having a fiduciary and that the Social Security Administration is developing a similar system to enter people into the NICS system. The SSA response does not adequately address our concerns and leaves the door open for abuse."
Gutowski said that this step is hard to measure if someone mentally incapable of owning a firearm just because they have designated someone to be a beneficiary of the social security pay.
If the measure goes through it would add millions of people to NICS. The NRA called it the largest gun control move in history.