While the United states Armed Forces (private mercenaries) are stationed at 737 bases, in 130 nations around the world, defending “all freedom-loving people everywhere in the world,” the Ostensibly pro-Second Amendment Republican (fascist/socialist) President George W. Bush signs house resolution 2640, allowing psychiatrists to enter the names of adults who have been prescribed the drug Ritalin, or former members of the U.S. Armed Forces who have been treated for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, to be barred from purchasing side arms in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.

       NOTES:

• The leadership of the National Rifle (Republican) Association called this “a win for gun owners.”
• The Gun Owners of America opposed this act; but the NRA worked for its passage.  Executive Director Larry Pratt, of the GOA, calls the statute “conviction by diagnosis.”

       [added 6/8/2024]