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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Hopefully American citizens will fight I believe we will!!!
my reply involves the Battle of Gonzales.
So RINO’s, have you sobered up yet?
We won’t comply
To hell with the evil, lying muslims whole administration
The gun then the steak knives
Grassley went on to question the VA’s standards for putting veterans on the gun ban list.
“Specifically, once the VA determines that a veteran requires a fiduciary to administer benefit payments, the VA reports that veteran to the gun ban list, consequently denying his or her right to possess and own firearms,” writes Grassley. “In the past, the VA has attempted to justify its actions by relying on a single federal regulation, 38 C.F.R. § 3.353, which by its plain language grants limited authority to determine incompetence, but only in the context of financial matters: ‘Ratings agencies have sole authority to make official determinations of competency and incompetency for purposes of: insurance and…disbursement of benefits.’”
Grassley also went on to cite varying standards of the unconstitutional Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act.
“In accordance with the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) adopted a regulation that defined a different standard for firearm regulation than that imposed by the VA,” Grassley writes. “The standard adopted is a ‘mental defective’ standard that, at its core, allows regulation only when someone is a danger to themselves and/or others. The regulation itself even states that the standard does not include persons suffering from mental illness but who are not a danger to themselves.”
THIS is exactly how they get you. After they ask if you have trouble paying your bills, you say”yes, so my wife handles it.” Is enough to mark you mentally defective and a “fiduciary” is appointed, and the Brady law comes into effect. Thank VA!!!
The illegal VA gun ban needs to be legally shot down! What the VA is doing is illegal and criminal!
don’t worry my brothers, when SHTF, there will be enough guns to go around for you all.