Social Security Update: Agency Backpedals as NRA and Pro-Gun Officials Press for Answers NRA-ILA GRASSROOTS VOLUME 22, NUMBER 32 NEWS     LEGAL & LEGISLATION   Social Security Update: Agency Backpedals as NRA and Pro-Gun Officials Press for Answers Last month, we reported on a story by the L.A. Times that indicated the Obama White House is eyeing ways to use the Social Security Administration (SSA) as a source of records for NICS, which includes a federal database of persons prohibited from possessing or receiving firearms. One option the story discussed was SSA's adoption of a model employed by the Veteran's Administration, which reports to NICS as "adjudicated as a mental defective" beneficiaries who have been assigned a "fiduciary" to manage their benefits. This has resulted in some 177,000 VA beneficiaries being reported as prohibited persons to NICS, without the necessity of any judicial finding whatsoever as to their

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