NBC News reported, “Trump signs bill revoking Obama-era gun checks for people with mental illnesses.” And they described the ban as a response to Sandy Hook, saying, “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.” Bloomberg News similarly reported that the ban “was a reaction to school shootings like the 2012 Sandy Hook attack.”

Neither NBC News nor Bloomberg asked how an elementary school attack carried out by a 20-year-old with stolen firearms could be justification for denying elderly Social Security beneficiaries their Second Amendment rights at retail gun stores.