This is why mental health for gun background checks are risky.....

[C_Clayton_Jones]

So.....they are classifying all sorts of returning soldiers as to crazy to own guns...and they are putting that on background check registries.........

And this is why we don't trust you ant gun nuts when we discuss putting mental health records into the gun background check system...you are not honest people....you will not deal with the situation in a fair or truthful way and you will use mental health records as just another way to keep healthy, normal people from owning guns....

Grassley to Holder Why Is The VA Putting So Many Veterans on Your Federal Gun Ban List - Katie Pavlich

"The National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) is effectively a national gun ban list and placement on the list precludes the ownership and possession of firearms. According to the Congressional Research Service, as of June 1, 2012, 99.3% of all names reported to the NICS list’s "mental defective” category were provided by the Veterans Administration (VA) even though reporting requirements apply to all federal agencies. And that percentage remained virtually unchanged as of April 2013. Given the numbers, it is essential to ensure that the process by which the VA reports names to the Department of Justice (DOJ) for placement on the NICS list recognizes and protects the fundamental nature of veterans’ rights under the Second Amendment," Grassley wrote in the letter. "Specifically, once the VA determines that a veteran requires a fiduciary to administer benefit payments, the VA reports that veteran to the gun ban list, consequently denying his or her right to possess and own firearms.

Wow....99.3% of the names are our soldiers....who carried weapons in combat for us over seas....and now can't carry a weapon here at home for their own defense.........like the one soldier who had insomnia....and got flagged.....

I personally don't believe in background checks or anything for gun ownership. But one of the saddest days of my life was when my friend killed himself with a gun. He was an Iraq veteran. All of the signs were there. He shouldn't have owned a gun. That still doesn't change my opinion, but it has changed my attitude. Some people shouldn't own guns. It isn't the government's job to decide who those people are...it is the job of family and friends to handle the situation.

There is only one reason they would be doing this. Who better to resist a totalitarian government than trained soldiers? Take away their guns, and they can't resist. Remember. The government is not your friend.

This is as ignorant and as ridiculous as the earth being only a few thousand years old.

Again, no one is having his guns 'taken away,' a firearm transaction cannot be prohibited by the government absent justification, and the law recognizes the due process rights of citizens to appeal the decision to deny.

 

[timslash]

>99.3% of the names are our soldiers....who carried weapons in combat for us over seas....and now can't carry a weapon here at home for their own defense
Well, in most cases their so-called self-defence is not more than just chaotic shooting in their homes after few bottles!
I understand that these guys are heroes and i'm not against them, but weapons...