So, if a veteran has been determined to be incompetent, he shouldn't be able to buy or possess a firearm? Guess what? It's already the law. Have you ever purchased a firearm and filled out a 4473? Remember the question where they ask this?
>>>>Have you ever been adjudicated mentally defective(which includes having been adjudicated incompetent to manage your own affairs) or have been committed to a mental institution?<<<<
Guess what happens if you answer that question yes? You don't get to buy the firearm.
This ridiculous post has been floating around on all the right wing whackadoo websites that JD reads every morning while foaming at the mouth to find something else to whine about. Not a single commentator, just like JD, addresses the competency language and what it means.
If a veteran is adjudicated to be mentally incompetent to handle their own affairs, the VA takes the position that they shouldn't be in possession of firearms. The only entity that can render a legally enforceable finding of incompetency is a court of law. There's a hearing, evidence is presented and the court decides. Typically, in veterans cases, this relates to the veteran's inability, for whatever reason, to manage his own financial affairs. In other words, he's spending his VA check on hookers and blow, or is burying it in his back yard to keep the imaginary gremlins from stealing it out of his mattress. Concerned family members are typically the ones who seek these kinds of determinations and the primary motive is to get the VA check into an account where a guardian (appointed by the court) can make sure the vet is paying his mortgage, has food in the refrigerator and is making his VA counseling appointment every week
Now.....all in favor of someone who has been determined to be mentally incompetent and unable to manage their own affairs by a court of law being allowed to purchase and own firearms, raise your right hand. Nobody?
So, shit-for-brains, your post today is wrong, your post a month ago was wrong and, as usual, you're an idiot.
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Originally Posted by JD Barleycorn
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