Dear Editor:
In February 2017, President Trump repealed an Obama-era regulation blocking the sale of firearms to people with certain mental illnesses, which would have prevented an estimated 75,000 people with mental disorders from being able to purchase a firearm, to strengthen the federal background check system in the wake of the 2012 massacre of 20 young students and six staff at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Conn.
Using the obscure Congressional Review Act, allowing regulations passed in the final days of one administration to be rescinded with a simple majority vote in both chambers of Congress during the first 60 days of a new administration, the senate sent their repeal of the Obama-era measure for Trump’s signature on Feb. 15, 2017 – a year and a day before the Parkland shooting.
Rodney Glynn-Morris
West Vancouver
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