{"id":100594,"date":"2024-03-09T18:49:16","date_gmt":"2024-03-10T00:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=100594"},"modified":"2024-03-09T18:49:16","modified_gmt":"2024-03-10T00:49:16","slug":"100594","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=100594","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kennedy.senate.gov\/public\/press-releases?ID=CA3D7B5D-13E2-4A65-B723-6F651DFA1FAB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kennedy secures Second Amendment win for veterans<\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON\u00a0\u2013 The Senate today passed a bill package including Sen. John Kennedy\u2019s (R-La.) amendment to protect veterans\u2019 Second Amendment rights from bureaucrats at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).<\/p>\n<p><b>\u201cUnelected bureaucrats shouldn\u2019t be able to strip veterans of their Second Amendment rights unilaterally. The Senate did the right thing for veterans and all freedom-loving Americans by passing my amendment today,\u201d\u00a0<\/b>said Kennedy.<\/p>\n<p>Current law requires the VA to send a veteran\u2019s name to the FBI&#8217;s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) whenever a fiduciary is appointed to help that veteran manage his or her VA benefits. Placement on NICS blocks veterans from purchasing or owning firearms.<\/p>\n<p>Because unelected bureaucrats at the VA ultimately decide\u2014without a court ruling\u2014whether veterans receive help from a fiduciary and therefore end up in NICS, current law denies veterans due process and infringes on veterans\u2019 right to bear arms.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy\u2019s amendment included in today\u2019s package changes current law to prohibit the Secretary of Veterans Affairs from sending a veteran\u2019s personal information to NICS unless a judge rules that the veteran is a danger to himself or others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kennedy secures Second Amendment win for veterans WASHINGTON\u00a0\u2013 The Senate today passed a bill package including Sen. John Kennedy\u2019s (R-La.) amendment to protect veterans\u2019 Second Amendment rights from bureaucrats at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). \u201cUnelected bureaucrats shouldn\u2019t be able to strip veterans of their Second Amendment rights unilaterally. The Senate did the right &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=100594\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,79,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucraps","category-government","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100595,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100594\/revisions\/100595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}