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Enormous Win for Veterans 2A Rights

Enormous Win for Veterans 2A Rights

The VA's underhanded "Red Flag" capability got taken away

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Here’s how a “Red Flag” capability was given to the Veteran’s Administration without Congress passing a law of any sort. This is how government does this stuff and it is why bureaucratic rule making is a huge problem.

First Came the Gun Control Act

In 1968, Congress passed the Gun Control Act of 1968. The law primarily focused on the interstate commerce involving firearms. Prior to that law, you could mail order a rifle and have it shipped to your house, among many other things. Also, contained within that law is that it is unlawful to possess a firearm if adjudicated as mentally defective.

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So we are clear, adjudicated in common English means:

settled, determined, or decreed judicially

And mental defective means:

A term to describe a person who finds it very difficult to learn and understand things

Straightforward, right? If a court determines that you find it very difficult to learn or unders…

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