House passes bill to restore gun rights to Veterans

By Chris Eger

The seal affixed to the front of the Department of Veterans Affairs building in Washington. (Photo: Charles Dharapak/AP)
Just a month after its introduction, a House bill to reverse the Department of Veterans Affairs’ practice of reporting some veterans to the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check system has been sent to the Senate.
The measure, introduced Feb. 16, prohibits the VA from considering beneficiaries assigned a fiduciary trustee to act on their behalf as being declared “mentally defective” and without a hearing forwarding their information to the FBI’s list of those stripped of gun rights. The proposal passed 240-175 largely along party lines on Thursday.
“I strongly believe we must do everything in our power to protect the rights guaranteed to all Americans, especially the men and women who have served, by the Constitution,” said sponsor, House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Chairman Phil Roe, R-Tenn., in a statement. “The Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act does just that.”
Roe’s bill would require a federal magistrate or judicial authority ruling that a VA beneficiary is a danger to themselves or others before the agency would forward their information to the FBI. Currently, the VA automatically sends the veteran’s name if they meet a certain list

Source: Guns.com