That is absolutely not true.
And as far as knowing what is going on, I attend a weekly group with a dozen of these guys...and have for many years.
Those that can be found and stabilized that is.
Additionally, guns are not being confiscated, they are putting these guys on a list that means they can't buy a gun legally.
For decades the NRA and other groups have been complaining existing law is not being enforced. This is simply preventing the legal purchase of firearms by the mentally deficient.
You want to give 'em one, go ahead.
You probably know a lot more about this issue than I do, but 260,000 seems like a ridiculously high number of vets who can’t buy a gun.
“Mentally deficient” and “mentally defective” are not medical diagnoses or medical terms. They are legal terms.
As shawnlaw points out above, no doctor is consulted in the process that results in the vet being put on a gun no-buy list. It is a purely administrative set of federal rules that automatically designate any vet with a feduciary to go on the no-buy list.
Mariner, I’m not disagreeing with all your points. You are right that people deemed mentally unstable should not buy guns. But that is not what is happening in this instance.
No specific requirement guarantees a mental or medical evaluation. Feduciary status is judged by the Agency to indicate mental instability. De facto. The vet may never see a single doctor and get on this list.
This is removal of 2nd amendment rights through solely bureaucratic and impersonal means.
Well that is patently untrue. They are disarming vets with nothing wrong with them. I know. (not me, but I’m not a vet either)
Just because it hasn’t happened to you or your buddies, it never has happened? snort!!
And everyone else’s experience is different than yours, yet you know all. Uh huh.