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VA Sends Veterans' Medical Info To FBI To Get Their Guns Taken Away
• The Daily CallerThe VA sends veterans' personal medical and financial information directly to the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, which can seize their guns in home raids.
Veterans deemed mentally incompetent or financially incapable are finally speaking out about the errors in the system and the fearful harassment they and their families face from the federal government. And it all starts when vets go to the VA to get medical help.
Here's what we know:
A medical information is used to block veterans from possessing firearms:
The Daily Caller obtained a "MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS AND THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION REGARDING THE NATIONAL INSTANT CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECK SYSTEM."
The document, dated Feb. 27, 2012, makes clear the VA must send health information to the FBI for its gun background-check database.
1 Comments in Response to VA Sends Veterans' Medical Info To FBI To Get Their Guns Taken Away
There is an adage regarding bureaucratic mayhem that goes like this: Bureaucrats make work for each other. DC Treybil