BREAKING:
Obama’s Federal Agencies Are Confiscating Weapons From Veterans
An Iraq War veteran and
defense/military policy analyst has warned that the Department of Veterans
Affairs has been misusing the law to carry out “a massive gun ban for thousands of veterans.”
Due to head injuries and other such
conditions, some veterans have had fiduciaries appointed to help them manage
their financial affairs. Nothing wrong with that, right?
Wrong. There’s a problem.
“The VA, in making the determination
that a veteran requires a fiduciary to help them manage their money, is additionally making the decision that the
veteran cannot handle a firearm, either,” wrote veteran Christopher
Neiweem, executive director of the Neiweem Group government affairs firm, for The Hill (emphasis added).
Moreover, the VA has reportedly made
these determinations without “conducting an evaluation to determine whether a
veteran is a threat.”
Instead it has simply applied a
label of “mentally defective” to these veterans and then notified them that
their Second Amendment
rights have basically been removed.
According to Neiweem, the VA
has been justifying these actions by citing the Brady Handgun Violence
Prevention Act of 1993, though he noted that the act specifically maintained
“that people who suffer from mental illnesses are not designated ‘mentally
defective.'”
“The VA is using federal laws in a
manner that is invalid and lacks proper oversight and fairness,” he continued,
adding that the VA was also violating the veterans’ right to due
process.
He added that this needed to
stop, and the only way to stop it was by pressuring Congress to take action requiring
that the VA first verify whether a veteran poses a threat before it labels
him or her “mentally defective.”
Congress must act. Allowing
this to continue would be more than a travesty of justice; it would be a slap
in the face of every American who has ever put his or her life on the line
to uphold the freedoms we hold dear
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