Grassley: DOJ gun ban unfair to veterans

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

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Grassley: DOJ gun ban unfair to veterans

By Tim Devaney - 04/15/15 06:51 PM EDT
The Obama administration is unfairly blocking tens of thousands of military veterans from owning guns, a Republican senator is charging.

The FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) is filled with military veterans who are essentially banned from owning guns, even though they may not be a danger to society, Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) wrote this week in a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder.

The gun ban "effectively voids their Second Amendment rights,” Grassley said.


At issue is whether these veterans are suffering from mental illnesses.
According to a 2013 Senate report, the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) is responsible for reporting more than 143,000 beneficiaries, including about 83,000 veterans, to the “mental defective” category of the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.

Any federal agency can report people to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, but the VA's recommendations account for about 99 percent of the people who are listed in the mental defective category.

Being listed blocks veterans from purchasing guns.

However, Grassley claims many of these veterans should not be precluded from owning guns.

The VA recommends many military veterans who it deems “incompetent” and in need of financial assistance to manage their benefits be placed in the “mental defective” category of the national gun ban list.

But Grassley says the VA doesn’t actually consider “whether a veteran is a danger to himself, herself, or others,” which is the federal standard for denying someone a gun.

There is a “real possibility that the right to firearms will be infringed,” he said.

“It’s disturbing to think that the men and women who dedicated themselves to defending our freedom and values face undue threats to their fundamental Second Amendment rights from the very agency established to serve them,” Grassley wrote.

“A veteran or dependent shouldn’t lose their constitutional rights, because they need help with bookkeeping,” he added.

We need the Republicans to pass a law that once and for all stops this dem led attack upon the 2nd Amendment. It is pure treason and a move to limit our freedoms and right to self-defense. -Tyr

[darin]

Look, Dems (and some republicans) in congress don't give two shits about the laws we already have - nor the source. Passing more laws will help nobody because Too many of our voting base are ignorant fucks who only 'rage' against things their leaders tell them.