https://www.washingtonpost.com/inve...7114e6ac460_story.html?utm_term=.3e082b65b2a4 The Trump administration has already been rolling back gun regulations But when Trump nixed one of Obama’s most significant efforts to expand background checks on prospective gun buyers, he did so without fanfare. The Feb. 28 bill signing, which blocked the Social Security Administration from reporting mentally impaired recipients to a national background-check database, earned just a brief mention at the end of a White House advisory that contained no reference to firearms https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...ng-obama-era-gun-checks-people-mental-n727221 Trump Signs Bill Revoking Obama-Era Gun Checks for People With Mental Illnesses The new law nullifies an Obama-backed rule that added people with mental illnesses to the national background check database. President Donald Trump quietly signed a bill into law Tuesday rolling back an Obama-era regulation that made it harder for people with mental illnesses to purchase a gun. The rule, which was finalized in December, added people receiving Social Security checks for mental illnesses and people deemed unfit to handle their own financial affairs to the national background check database. Had the rule fully taken effect, the Obama administration predicted it would have added about 75,000 names to that database. President Barack Obama recommended the now-nullified regulation in a 2013 memo following the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, which left 20 first graders and six others dead. The measure sought to block some people with severe mental health problems from buying guns.