{"id":57509,"date":"2015-01-07T08:00:39","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T13:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=57509"},"modified":"2015-01-07T10:22:16","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T15:22:16","slug":"va-wants-to-count-your-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=57509","title":{"rendered":"VA wants to count your guns?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Times<\/a> reports that some veterans are getting letters from the VA offering free gun locks if the veterans will tell them how many guns they have in their home;<\/p>\n

\u201cAs your partner in healthcare, we are committed to keeping you and your family safe,\u201d states the letter, a copy of which was obtained by The Washington Times. \u201cGun locks have been shown to greatly reduce death and injury caused by firearms in the home. If you own a gun, we hope you will request and use a gun lock.\u201d<\/p>\n

The letter said agency officials \u201chope to reach all our veterans with this offer.\u201d The VA said it will mail the locks to the address provided by a veteran.<\/p>\n

One veteran who received the letter said it raises concerns about \u201ca gun registry in disguise.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I haven’t received any of these letters so I’m thinking that it’s a regional thing, if it exists at all. A few months ago someone started a rumor about VA doctors taking guns from vets. I did everything I could do to get my doctors to ask me about my own guns to see if it was true, none of them took the bait, so I have some doubts that this is a national occurrence.<\/p>\n

But, thanks to reader Ohio for the link. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Washington Times reports that some veterans are getting letters from the VA offering free gun locks if the veterans will tell them how many guns they have in their home; \u201cAs your partner in healthcare, we are committed to keeping you and your family safe,\u201d states the letter, a copy of which was obtained […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-veterans-affairs-department"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Veterans-Affairs2.jpg?fit=259%2C195&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-eXz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}