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Olga sent me this article from the Marine Corps Times (written by our old buddy Rick Maze) about the bill before Congress to protect Veterans’ gun rights;

The Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act, pending before the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee, would limit the circumstances in which a veteran’s name could be added to a federal database used to do instant background checks for gun purchases.

By law, anyone “adjudicated as a mental defective,” such as people found to be a danger to themselves or others or who lack the mental capacity to manage their affairs, must be registered in the database.

The bill, S 669, which has 15 co-sponsors, would prohibit VA from submitting names to the National Instant Criminal Background Check database unless a judicial authority finds the individuals to be a danger to themselves or others.

VA has been turning over the names of veterans who have had someone else appointed to handle their financial affairs. Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., ranking Republican on the veterans committee and sponsor of the bill, said VA has sent names of more than 117,000 veterans to the Justice Department since 1998 under the policy.

The article goes on to mention that the Bush Administration was just as guilty as the Obama Administration of not changing this terrible policy. That doesn’t make it right – there are things lots of us didn’t like about the Bush Administration. Using unrelated data bases to interfere with veterans’ rights is one of them.

I could almost understand it if each case was reviewed by a doctor to determine whether the veteran was a danger before his/her name was submitted to the DOJ, but that doesn’t seem to be the case.

(Editor’s Note: I took the above photo of East German border guards. The Bavarian Police who were with us said that it was a border leader training course out for a day of practical exercise.)

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