Senator Charles E. Grassley (R-IA) recently sent Eric Holder a letter when he was Attorney General demanding to know why the VA has been placing veterans on a federal gun ban list – labeling them as “mentally defective”.
Grassley wrote, “The National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) is effectively a national gun ban list and placement on the list precludes the ownership and possession of firearms. According to the Congressional Research Service, as of June 1, 2012, 99.3% of all names reported to the NICS list’s “mental defective” category were provided by the Veterans Administration (VA) even though reporting requirements apply to all federal agencies. 1 And that percentage remained virtually unchanged as of April 2013.2 Given the numbers, it is essential to ensure that the process by which the VA reports names to the Department of Justice (DOJ) for placement on the NICS list recognizes and protects the fundamental nature of veterans’ rights under the Second Amendment.”
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What you going to do when all the vets come together and take our country back?? You can’t have our guns period not mine not the vets we will not comply.
Jacob Mcleod is this true
Germany surrendered, the Nazis never did, they are still here, they came here on the boats with everyone else.
Very misleading headline. There’s nothing “illegal” about what is being done. It’s called the Brady Act and was signed by President Regan a long time ago. Simply put, it says if a veteran is found “mentally incompetent” by a federal medical agency (VA/SSA), then he/she cannot own firearms. It also applies to Social Security Administration folks who receive SocSec benefits. I am very pro-Second Amendment and a patriot, but I really wish these articles explained their headlines a little better.
He is also trying to keep people on Socil Security from owning guns I don’t care what they say. I am on SS and I won’t give up mine.
The VA can do nothing with out the consent of the Congress and the Senate unless they wimp out.
They can shove it!
They in the white house need to be disarmed See how they feel. You disarming us will not help you but only hurt us. Sorry with that no good leader you got don’t make us feel save.
No!
They are trying obama has us on a terrorist wartch list and va keeps trying