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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 1592693" data-attributes="member: 12952">Eric Holder’s list of citizens banned from gun ownership mostly hurts veteransChuck Grassley wants explanation of why Justice keeps VA’s names on background-check listAll federal agencies are required to report names of individuals who are dangers to themselves or others to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System’s “mental defective” category — a status that prevents them from owning or possessing guns.That means that veterans “are particularly singled out,” <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/chuck-grassley/" target="_blank">Mr. Grassley</a> said. Those veterans should not be required by the Department of Veterans Affairs “to prove that they have the ability to exercise their Second Amendment rights,” he said.“Instead VA reports individuals to the gun ban list if an individual merely needs financial assistance managing VA benefits. Although the VA process is not designed to regulate firearm ownership, it results in veterans and their loved ones being barred from exercising their fundamental, Constitutionally-guaranteed Second Amendment rights,” he wrote.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 1592693, member: 12952"] [SIZE=6][B]Eric Holder’s list of citizens banned from gun ownership mostly hurts veterans[/B][/SIZE] Chuck Grassley wants explanation of why Justice keeps VA’s names on background-check list All federal agencies are required to report names of individuals who are dangers to themselves or others to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System’s “mental defective” category — a status that prevents them from owning or possessing guns. That means that veterans “are particularly singled out,” [URL='http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/chuck-grassley/']Mr. Grassley[/URL] said. Those veterans should not be required by the Department of Veterans Affairs “to prove that they have the ability to exercise their Second Amendment rights,” he said. “Instead VA reports individuals to the gun ban list if an individual merely needs financial assistance managing VA benefits. Although the VA process is not designed to regulate firearm ownership, it results in veterans and their loved ones being barred from exercising their fundamental, Constitutionally-guaranteed Second Amendment rights,” he wrote. [/QUOTE]

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