• Include information from the Social Security Administration in the background check system about beneficiaries who are prohibited from possessing a firearm. Current law prohibits individuals from buying a gun if, because of a mental health issue, they are either a danger to themselves or others or are unable to manage their own affairs. The Social Security Administration (SSA) has indicated that it will begin the rulemaking process to ensure that appropriate information in its records is reported to NICS. The reporting that SSA, in consultation with the Department of Justice, is expected to require will cover appropriate records of the approximately 75,000 people each year who have a documented mental health issue, receive disability benefits, and are unable to manage those benefits because of their mental impairment, or who have been found by a state or federal court to be legally incompetent. The rulemaking will also provide a mechanism for people to seek relief from the federal prohibition on possessing a firearm for reasons related to mental health.

If mentally deranged persons actually obtained guns previously by the newly prohibited means, which I doubt, they would merely get them the way other criminals do--illegally. In 2013, about 33,000 deaths were attributed to firearms. 21,000 of those were suicides. The overwhelming remainder were run-of-the mill murders based on greed, jealousy, lust, and revenge. Only 500 or so were mass shootings of four or more victims. These Executive Orders won't do anything to prevent any of them.