Bill Giving Veterans Deemed 'Mentally Incompetent' Easier Access to Guns Gains Steam with Senate App

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Bill Giving Veterans Deemed 'Mentally Incompetent' Easier Access to Guns Gains Steam with Senate Approval
Rebecca Kheel
Thu, October 26, 2023 at 12:08 PM EDT·4 min read
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The Senate has approved a measure that would ease some veterans' access to guns, brushing aside objections from most Democrats and the Department of Veterans Affairs that doing so could hinder suicide prevention efforts.

The legislation would prohibit the VA from reporting veterans who are found incapable of managing their own finances to the FBI's national background check database without first getting a judge's consent. The Senate passed the measure by Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., in a 53-45 vote Wednesday afternoon.

The VA reports the names of veterans who are deemed mentally incompetent to a national criminal background check database used during the purchase of firearms, but the practice has drawn criticism from gun rights advocates in Congress. The vote came hours before at least 18 people were killed in a mass shooting in Maine, where authorities have identified an Army reservist as a person of interest.
 
The Senate legislation was passed as an amendment to the annual VA spending bill, which must still be hashed out by both chambers of Congress before being passed into law.

https://news.yahoo.com/measure-restore-gun-rights-mentally-160839980.html

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Bill Giving Veterans Deemed 'Mentally Incompetent' Easier Access to Guns Gains Steam with Senate Approval
Rebecca Kheel
Thu, October 26, 2023 at 12:08 PM EDT·4 min read
116


The Senate has approved a measure that would ease some veterans' access to guns, brushing aside objections from most Democrats and the Department of Veterans Affairs that doing so could hinder suicide prevention efforts.

The legislation would prohibit the VA from reporting veterans who are found incapable of managing their own finances to the FBI's national background check database without first getting a judge's consent. The Senate passed the measure by Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., in a 53-45 vote Wednesday afternoon.

Being confused does NOT mean  you become psychotic and want to start killing people,and I honestly think most people would be shocked at how non-violent the typical combat veteran is. After all,he,or she nowadays,doesn't have to prove anything  to  themselves or anybody else.

Combat vets that do become disturbed seem to be more likely to harm themselves than anyone else.

BTW,MOST of the combat horror stories you hear from people you meet at pure BS. Had a local guy at a Hardees telling me he was a VN vet and sniper in VN,and had 228 confirmed kills. When I asked him where he operated,he told me "Laos",
and that is when I told him and everybody setting around for 2 tables that he was a liar because SOG was the only US group operating on the ground in Cambodia,Laos,and NVN.

He left right after that,and a guy that I knew that was sitting at the next table to me he knew the guy from the time he was in high school,and he was drafted into the army and was a cook in VN.

I think this goober is looking  for  a way  to try to discredit me,now. One of the locals that sits at "the locals tables" every morning came  over  to  me as I  was  reading my novel,and asked  me what my MOS was in VN. I suspect the cook put hi up to it so he could tell people that was his MOS.

Which MIGHT get him a serious ass-whupping if he starts telling those lies to a SF VN vet that doesn't know him.

I can see the look  on his face now after he tells a SF vet his MOS,and the guy starts asking him which schools he attended,where  they were,and  who was teaching them.


The VA reports the names of veterans who are deemed mentally incompetent to a national criminal background check database used during the purchase of firearms, but the practice has drawn criticism from gun rights advocates in Congress. The vote came hours before at least 18 people were killed in a mass shooting in Maine, where authorities have identified an Army reservist as a person of interest.

Had NOTHING to do with  him  being a vet,and frankly I am shocked they didn't claim he  was a WHITE  vet
 
The Senate legislation was passed as an amendment to the annual VA spending bill, which must still be hashed out by both chambers of Congress before being passed into law.

Being a veteran is NOT an indication that you will become a murderer.

https://news.yahoo.com/measure-restore-gun-rights-mentally-160839980.html