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Lawmakers: VA is denying hundreds of thousands of veterans’ 2nd Amendment rights - LisaJarratt - 04-06-2016
Lawmakers: VA is denying hundreds of thousands of veterans’ 2nd Amendment rights
Two GOP lawmakers are working to understand why hundreds of thousands of veterans have been declared “mentally defective” and stripped of their 2nd Amendment rights.
The problem has to do with the Department of Veterans Affairs reporting veterans who have a fiduciary trustee—someone who handles financial issues on their behalf— to the National Instant Criminal Background Check system as potential dangers to society if they are allowed to own guns.
So far, the VA has reportedly declared some 260,381 veterans who have fiduciary trustees to the background check system as “mentally defective.”
RE: Lawmakers: VA is denying hundreds of thousands of veterans’ 2nd Amendment rights - rwhite135 - 04-07-2016
One of the myriad of reasons not to deal with the VA. If you're a vet and can't afford private insurance, you're better off with medicaid if your state allows it. I haven't bothered with the VA since I was discharged from Ft. Benning in 1999. Those bastards put me at 9% disabled so they wouldn't have to give me a disability pension. They were going to give me medical and I said thanks but no thanks.