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Monday, February 19, 2018
VietPress USA (Feb. 19, 2018): The Fortune online reported that the Obama-era regulation, which was enacted after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, would have required the Social Security Administration to send records of beneficiaries with severe mental disabilities to the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System. The measure would have affected about 75,000 people found mentally incapable of managing their financial affairs.
President Trump tweeted on last Thursday that “So many signs that the Florida shooter was mentally disturbed, even expelled from school for bad and erratic behavior. Neighbors and classmates knew he was a big problem. Must always report such instances to authorities, again and again!”
Trump's tweet suggested the man, 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz who is the suspected gunman, should have been reported. (He was by at least one man, who reported him to the FBI.) The tweet also sparked an outcry amongst gun control advocates who noted that Trump repealed an initiative last February 2017 that ruled by former President Barack Obama to made it harder for people with mental illness to buy a gun.
After having faced outcrying from Students and American people, Trump now agrees to improve background checking gun owners and gun buyers.
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Trump supports improving background checks on gun owners, White House says
By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times - Monday, February 19, 2018
The White House said Monday that President Trump supports improvements to the federal system of background checks on gun ownership, in the wake of last week’s mass school shooting in Florida.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Mr. Trump spoke on Friday with Republican Sen. Jon Cornyn of Texas about legislation he’s proposed with Sen. Chris Murphy, Connecticut Democrat, “to improve federal compliance with criminal background check legislation.”
“While discussions are ongoing and revisions are being considered, the president is supportive of efforts to improve the federal background check system,” she said.
Mr. Cornyn introduced the bill aimed at strengthening the federal background check database following a mass shooting at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, in which 26 people died. It seeks to ensure that federal and state authorities accurately report relevant information, including criminal history, to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.
After the church shooting, the Air Force revealed that it had failed to disclose the gunman’s history of domestic assault to the database, which should have prohibited him from purchasing a firearm.
The alleged gunman in the Florida high school shooting, in which 17 died, purchased his AR-15 legally, authorities have said. He’s alleged to have behavioral problems.
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