Has the VA Deprived You of Your Second Amendment Rights? Call us!
As we have reported several times in the past (including here and here), the Veterans Administration (VA) has been reporting to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) the identities of its beneficiaries who have been assigned a “fiduciary” to manage their benefits. The VA claims that such determinations constitute an “adjudication of mental defectiveness” under federal law, thereby prohibiting the beneficiary (preemptively for life) from acquiring or possessing firearms.
The NRA has for several years been supporting legislation to correct this unjustified infringement on Second Amendment rights, including the Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act (H.R. 2001, Rep. Jeff Miller, R-FL) and the Mental Health and Safe Communities Act of 2015 (S. 2002, Sen. John Cornyn, R-TX).
Recently, this issue has taken on even broader importance with the planned implementation of a similar program concerning Social Security Administration (SSA) beneficiaries who have been assigned a “representative payee.” We reported on SSA’s plans last summer, and then the White House itself announced the program would be part of President Obama’s latest “executive actions” on gun control.
Now, in our continuing efforts to oppose these gun-grabbing schemes, we are asking you to share your stories. We are interested in hearing from VA beneficiaries who have been deprived of their Second Amendment rights after assignment of a fiduciary, especially if you are willing to allow your experience to be made public. Our hope is that by putting a human face on VA’s practices, we’ll be able to shine more light on this scandal and hopefully promote meaningful reform.
In particular, we’d like to know:
- Who made the determination that a fiduciary was necessary?
- Did this determination involve a formal hearing?
- Were you told the effect the determination would have on your Second Amendment rights?
- Were you apprised of your right to an appeal or to petition for restoration of rights?
- What factors influenced your decision whether or not to pursue an appeal or restoration?
- Were you successfully able to get your rights back?
If you are able to share documentation of your experience (letters, rulings, etc.) that would also be very helpful.
Please contact us using our web form here or call us at (800) 392-8683 and provide:
- Your name and contact information;
- Brief answers to the above six questions;
- Digital copies of relevant documents, if possible; and
- Whether you consent to NRA contacting you for follow-up and using your information in our public efforts to right this wrong.
The NRA is committed to ensuring that the Second Amendment rights of all VA and SSA beneficiaries are respected. Your help will promote this effort.
Dear Fellow gun owners, Americans & Constitutionalists.
James Madison wrote: “The preservation of a free government requires, not merely that the metes and bounds which separate each department of power be invariably maintained, but more especially that neither of them be suffered to overleap the great barrier which defends the rights of the people. The rulers who are guilty of such encroachment exceed the commission from which they derive their authority, and are TYRANTS. The people who submit to it are governed by laws made neither by themselves nor by an authority derived from them and are slaves…..”
The “great barrier” is our Constitution. It has been “overleaped” and we are slaves! The Republic created by America’s founders is history! It was destroyed by TYRANTS who, to paraphrase thirty governors, exceeded the clear bounds of their jurisdiction under the Constitution and thus violated Rights guaranteed the people. America is now a nation-state of the New World Order; “a world that has a supranational authority to regulate world commerce and industry, an international organization that would control the production and consumption of oil; an international currency that would replace the dollar; a world development fund that would make funds available to free and communist nations alike; and an international police force to enforce the edicts of the New World Order.” By this definition this NWO will be a global prison!
Should you doubt the TYRANTS intend to disarm us I pray this message will convince you otherwise for THEY DO! I base this statement on the following facts.
In “Our Global Neighborhood: The Report of the Commission on Global Governance,” the Commission strongly endorsed the disarming of civilians!
Though our Declaration of Independence says government’s purpose is to secure our unalienable Rights to Life, Liberty, and an opportunity for Happiness President Clinton – in direct conflict with it – said in a 1993 interview on MTV that: “The purpose of the government is to rein in the rights of the people.”
The United Nation’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights and International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and State Department Publication endorse the idea of The Report of the Commission on Global Governance to disarm civilians.
On 2-1-92 President George Herbert Walker Bush said: “it is the sacred principles enshrined in the United Nations Charter to which we will henceforth pledge our allegiance.”
The video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1F9e2Q7HiOE&feature=player_detailpage describes government’s intent to impose the global prison called the New World Order (NWO).
Left unchallenged, government will disarm civilians in order to totally enslave us without resistance. As George Washington said “The crisis is arrived when we must assert our rights or submit to every imposition that can be heaped upon us, till custom and use shall make us as tame and abject slaves.”
Unfortunately, the history of America’s Constitutionalists is one of failure. Thousands of organizations and millions of individuals have tried to unilaterally redirect our ‘ship of state’ to no avail. This approach hasn’t worked and won’t work! As Medori Severi said: “Until we abandon our manifold private agendas and unite, we will merely be hapless observers standing at the bottom of a dark, deep pit, wistfully hoping to save the world, but really doing little more than breaking the fall of compatriots who are pushed in on top of us…”
When the British Captain of Her Majesty’s Ship SERAPIS demanded he surrender Admiral Jones said: “I have not yet begun to fight!” So it is with us. We have yet to agree our problem is the failure of people in general – and elected officials and law enforcement personnel in particular – to recognize the importance of James 4:17 and do what’s right. We have no widely accepted plan for correcting government’s unlawful acts and we have no recognized leadership; a recipe for disaster. What we should do is adopt a plan through which we can enjoy the benefits of unity on actions of mutual interest while retaining our freedom to pursue our special interests. Let’s face it: the history of America’s patriots were characterized by POGO; “we have met the enemy and he is us.”
Thankfully, a viable plan is available. It’s a product of the Constitutionalist’s Networking Center chaired by the late Governor Evan Mecham. It’s summarized at http://www.thecnc.org/Documents/RestoringGovernment.htm. A communications system through which people can locate and communicate with others in their area and others is desperately needed. I pray you see the need for “teaming up” to Take America Back to its lawful foundation as I firmly believe a failure to plan is a plan to fail; something we dare not do!!
Respectfully,
Walter Myers
785-766-3045