Rep. Eli Crane’s (R) proposal is a crucial move that would restore Second Amendment rights to approximately 260,000 veterans who lost these precious liberties through federal action. It would also serve as a shield for tens of thousands of others who are at risk of losing their freedoms.
The House move intends to reverse a trend over several years of having gun rights removed from veterans who experience financial difficulties. The Veterans Administration (VA) exercised a policy concerning former military members who used a third party to manage their financial affairs.
Officials would report their identities to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), rendering them unable to exercise their constitutional rights.
The system somehow equated even the short-term necessity of requiring financial assistance with being mentally unfit to possess a weapon.
The VA recently halted such notifications, but only for six months. In March, the agency temporarily suspended its weekly submission of names to the national database.
This did not end the ban on certain veterans possessing firearms, but it stopped the reporting of new names of those who would be denied their Second Amendment rights.
Aiden Johnson of Gun Owners of America noted the federal law prohibiting firearm purchases or possession still stands, but no new names are being added to this roll.
Last week’s House move increased pressure on senators to follow suit, though the political makeup of the upper chamber differs significantly from that of the lower chamber. But if anyone deserves to have their constitutional rights protected with all diligence, it is those who defended the U.S.
The practice of arbitrarily wiping away gun rights for former servicemembers needs to end.
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