I had never heard of this, nor would I have believed it possible:
Navy Veteran John Arnold of Priest River, Idaho, received a letter from the VA informing him that he is no longer allowed to purchase or own guns,
When the Department of Veterans Affairs determines a veteran unable to take care of his financial affairs, it reports the assessment to the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS).
Once NICS gets the report, it labels the veteran “incapacitated,” which means that he along with his family members who live in the same household are barred by law from buying or owning firearms.
On July 30, 2015, Navy Veteran John Arnold of Priest River, Idaho, received a letter from the VA informing him… that “an inspector from an Idaho office of Veteran’s Affairs would be coming to his home in Priest River on August 6th to confiscate his firearms.”
I can’t imagine the legal grounds for disarming relatives as well, though I could have seen some leftist trying to pass it ostensibly to “prevent” a mentally ill person from getting a relative’s weapons. Still, you wouldn’t think it would be Constitutional to demand a relative surrender their right to defense merely because a veteran who can’t own guns lives with them.
Fortunately, things are turning K, so the disarming didn’t go as planned.
Idaho Republican state Representative Heather Scott of Blanchard and about 100 area residents gathered outside the veteran’s home to prevent the inspector from taking them.
Scott spearheaded the effort, which attracted Washington state Representative Matthew Shea of Spokane Valley and County Sheriff Daryl Wheeler. Shea called the gathering a “defiance against tyranny” and Wheeler vowed that he’d stand guard “to make sure Mr. Arnold’s rights weren’t going to be breached.”
This is the turning. Ten years ago nobody would have had the motivation, even if they thought it was wrong. Today, anger is building, and it is driving actions, from ones as small as turning up somewhere to protest, to ones as large as a Sheriff showing up to prevent Feds from seizing firearms.
That will grow with time.
Apocalypse cometh™
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That’s what I like to see.