America’s military veterans are supposed to hold a special place in society.
But politicians in Washington, D.C.’s “Swamp” have been giving them the shaft.
And two RINOs just committed this awful betrayal of veterans.
Veterans have their gun rights stripped away by Veterans Affairs
For decades the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has unconstitutionally been stripping away the Second Amendment rights of hundreds of thousands of brave military veterans.
Starting in 1998 under former President Bill Clinton, the VA used the Brady gun ban to begin putting veterans on the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NCIS) no-buy list because the department declared them unfit to own a gun.
Veterans who have a fiduciary appointed by the VA to manage their financial affairs or for mental health problems have a government bureaucrat report them to NICS.
The VA doesn’t go through a court to put them on a no-buy list which strips them of due process.
More than 250,000 veterans to date have lost the ability to buy and possess a gun because the VA reported them to NICS.
Government bureaucrats don’t have the authority to unconstitutionally deprive veterans of their right to keep and bear arms because someone manages their finances for them.
Veterans who want to restore their gun rights are left dealing with a mountain of red tape and government bureaucrats to be removed from the no-buy list.
Pro-gun Republicans have been fighting for years to restore veterans’ gun rights by removing the power of the VA to report NICS.
RINOs vote against an amendment to repeal the veterans gun ban
U.S. Representative Eli Crane (R-AZ) – a veteran who served in the Navy SEALS – introduced an amendment in the House Veterans Affairs Committee to restore veterans’ gun rights.
His amendment targeted the VA and other government agencies that have been reporting veterans to the NICS no-buy list.
This should have been an easy vote for any Republican.
But two RINOs on the committee voted against Crane’s amendment.
Representatives Michael Bost (RINO-IL) and Aumua Amata Coleman Radewagen (RINO-American Samoa) voted against giving veterans their Second Amendment rights back.
Radewagen can vote on committees as a delegate of an American territory but can’t participate in full votes in the House.
Bost serves as chair of the Veterans Affairs Committee and he voted against restoring gun rights to the men and women he’s supposed to be fighting for in Congress.
In March, Bost narrowly won the Republican Primary for Illinois’ 12th House District against his challenger Darren Bailey by less than 3,000 votes.
“The Uniparty is strong. I’ll keep fighting it,” Crane said on social media in response to the RINOs’ betrayal.
Even Bost’s vulnerable Senate Democrat counterpart, who is anti-gun, was smart enough to realize that voting against veterans’ gun rights was a political liability with voters.
Senate Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Jon Tester (D-MT) – who has the toughest re-election race in the Senate this year – supported a Senate amendment to restore veterans’ gun rights.
“It is not right that a D.C. bureaucrat at VA could take away a veteran’s legal right to their firearms simply because they needed assistance managing their finances,” Tester said last October.
Veterans are at the mercy of faceless VA bureaucrats to exercise their constitutional rights.
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