Rachel Maddow Claims That the Trump Admin Is ‘Restoring Gun Rights to People with Mental Illness: ‘This Time He’s Going Even Further’

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MADDOW: “This time he’s going even further. ‘The Trump Administration is scrapping more than three dozen firearms regulations, abandoning a crackdown on illegal sales, loosening oversight of private weapons transactions, and, oh, one more thing — restoring gun rights to some people with mental illness. For real. He’s actually doing this again right now, trying to take this further, prioritizing and taking government action specifically — not as, like, a washover effect, not as an unintended consequence, but deliberately and on purpose, and specifically to ensure that mentally ill people can have access to firearms and ammunition.”