This past March 7, the National Guard in South Carolina performed door-to-door ‘wellness checks’ in an state-wide drill entitled Operation Vigilant Guard. The stated purpose was to prep for a Category 4 hurricane disaster.
Overall, around 2,000 military personnel and 5,000 persons from the South Carolina emergency management divisions participated.
This certainly harkens back to Hurricane Katrina disaster, where the National Guard and local law enforcement confiscated guns door-to-door.
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DON’T ANSWER DOOR, JUST HAVE YOUR SCOPE POINTED AT IT AND GOOD COVER! TRUST NO-ONE!!!
how did that work out?
? They weren’t trained for this but for other work so they should go do their job.
Ummm. For those who have NEVER experienced a Cat 3 or 4 hurricane, you would not understand. Because SC is so vigilant after hurricanes (HUGO), we have a very fast recovery with LIMITED looting and gouging. Very much unlike post Katrina with a corrupt democratic led government. Nagel is now in jail.
Yeah. HUGO too.
I don’t know if I trust the govt anymore!!!
Wow people using kool-aid has an excuse lay off the kool-aid yourself Terrillynn
Don’t need the government checking on me we have doctors. Get the$#%&!@*off my land.
Not all Govt is with Obama. So not all the govt will force these NG to come to your door.
By Sarah Ferris – 01/04/16 05:16 PM EST
The Obama administration is seeking to make it easier for people to pass along mental health records for people legally banned from owning a firearm.
Some health providers, courts and state officials have been hesitant to share records because of strict privacy laws. As a result, the federal background check system, known as the NCIS, has significant gaps on people disqualified from owning guns because of mental illnesses.
New rules issued Monday by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) are intended to make it clear that legal authorities can pass along mental health records that could be valuable in a background check.
The rules from the Obama administration, to be published Tuesday, clarify that only limited information about the patient is shared – only a person’s name and the entity that made the ruling.
“Underlying diagnoses, treatment records, and other identifiable health information are not provided to or maintained by the NICS,” the rule reads.
Under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), people who have been involuntarily committed to a mental institution or found “not guilty” in court by reason of insanity cannot purchase firearms. Every licensed firearms dealer is required to perform a background check of each buyer to determine whether they’re eligible for the purchase.
Those checks are intended to keep out any person who has a history of severe mental illness as judged by a court. The system, however, has been much-criticized for its record-keeping.
Only two-thirds of states require mandatory reporting of mental health records, in part because people have raised concerns about privacy.