Amendment #35 to H.R. 4366, protecting veterans from losing their 2A rights for having a financial fiduciary, passed the House 228-206

[old lady new shooter]

This stops the policy of labeling veterans with a financial fiduciary mental defectives and therefore prohibiting them from owning firearms. Six Democrats (Cuellar from TX, Golden of ME, Vicente Gonzalez of TX, Peltola of AK, Perez of WA, and Vasquez of NM) voted in favor, and one Republican (Fitzpatrick of PA) voted against it.. GOA was very instrumental in this victory, having sent an excellent letter to Reps McCarthy, Scalise, Emmer, Jeffries, and Clark.

GOA article prior to the vote: https://www.gunowners.org/stop-bidens-va-from-disarming-veterans/

GOA letter not yet on their website, Jared on G&G read it aloud on his video reporting the vote:


link to roll call: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2023373

 

[Old Dog]

This is interesting to me on a personal level. I have been court-appointed as a legal guardian and conservator of a parent who was deemed by the court and medical authority as not capable of taking care of their own financial affairs. But I never worried that he/she/they needed to have their personally owned firearms taken away and thus rendering them totally defenseless. Just because Mom or Dad forgets to write checks -- or writes them twice -- to pay for utility bills doesn't always mean they should be left incapable of defending themselves. While my 90-something father's memory occasionally failed, it never occurred to me that I should take his guns away and leave this WWII/Korea vet incapable of defending himself.