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Report: FBI In Cahoots With VA To Prevent Veterans From Getting Guns
A new report shows the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) colluding with the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to prevent veterans from exercising their Second Amendment rights to bear arms using not only medical information, but banking methods too.
The memo from February 2012, first obtained by The Daily Caller, is entitled “MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS AND THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION REGARDING THE NATIONAL INSTANT CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECK SYSTEM.”
The document states that the VA must provide health-related information of veterans to the bureau:
VA will provide an encrypted compact disc exchanged via mail to the FBI no less than quarterly for, inter alia, inclusion in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS).
A separate “frequently asked questions” document said the “VA provides the Department of Justice a monthly list of individuals who have been rated by VA as being unable to manage their VA benefits.”
“A monthly CD” is sent by the VA information technology center in Austin, Texas, to the FBI. On the CD are new names of veterans added to the watch list. While the number of veterans “fluctuates,” as many as “129,440 beneficiaries were in the program as of July 12, 2012,” according to the memo.
Changing banking methods could also get you on the list, the publication noted. Even agents with the Bureau for Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) will confiscate veterans’ firearms. “I was getting real sick from the medications they had me on,” veteran Douglas Szklarski told The DC.
I pretty much lived in bed. Somebody brought me a joint. I started using cannabis. It started turning me around immediately. So I said I wouldn’t [take the VA pills] anymore. They said you have to take them. They deemed me incompetent.
“I’ve had like nine doctors say I wasn’t incompetent and they still went after my guns,” Szklarski added. “ATF came to my house. I had to surrender them.” Szklarski noted he appealed the VA’s decision and only “just got” his guns back.
This report comes after a letter submitted by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, to Attorney General Eric Holder last week asking several questions about the VA’s questionable policy.
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This post originally appeared on Western Journalism – Equipping You With The Truth
Source: http://www.westernjournalism.com/report-fbi-in-cahoots-with-va-to-prevent-veterans-from-getting-guns/
