DONALD Trump revoked plans that made it harder for mentally ill people to get access to guns just seven months before the deadly Las Vegas mass shooting on Sunday, it has been revealed.
The US President quietly signed a bill which would roll back an Obama-era regulation demanding gun checks for people with mental illnesses in February this year.
The law, which was first finalised in December, aimed to add people receiving Social Security checks for mental illnesses and people deemed unfit to handle their own financial affairs to the national background check database.
It would have seen 75,000 names added to the system, in a measure which sought to block some people with severe mental health problems from buying guns.
But the rule was hotly contested by gun rights advocates who said it infringed on Americans’ Second Amendment rights.
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