One for the good (old) guys!
Finally, a stunning victory for the pro-gun community, the first bill to repeal an Obama anti-gun measure is now headed to President Trump's desk.
Earlier today, the Senate voted to overturn Barack Obama's Social Security Gun Ban.
[The vote in the Senate was 57-43, with all Republicans voting for the repeal. They were joined by only four Democrats and one Independent. The earlier House vote was 235-180.]
The resolution, House Joint Resolution 40, now goes to the president's desk, where Donald Trump is expected to eagerly sign it.
This action is expected to be the first of a series of pro-gun actions to be taken by Congress and the Trump administration.
The Social Security Gun Ban was pushed by Barack Obama beginning on January 4, 2016.
It was a flailing PR stunt following a terrorist shooting in which an ISIS Islamic militant shot up a gun-free community center in the gun-hating state of California.
Somehow Obama thought he could convince the country that nationalizing California's failed laws would prevent more of the same.
Under the soon-to-be-repealed Social Security Gun Ban, garden-variety bureaucrats could look through applications for benefits and summarily impose gun bans on law-abiding Americans, even though they had no training in medicine and no contact with the applicant.
Conditions as benign as "anxiety" could be used to strip Americans of their constitutional rights with no due process whatsoever. People receiving benefit payments through a guardian would also lose their guns.
