A Department of Veterans Affairs policy that Second Amendment advocates call a 'veteran gun ban' likely won’t get funded in the new spending bill.
A Department of Veterans Affairs policy that Second Amendment advocates call a 'veteran gun ban' likely won’t get funded in the new spending bill — to the chagrin of the Biden administration, which supports the broader omnibus but criticized the provision and vowed to find other ways to keep guns away from 'those who shouldn’t have them.
'While the administration is pleased that hundreds of poison pill provisions and extreme funding cuts were rejected, the administration opposes the language included in the bill that would potentially undermine the ability of the Veterans’ Affairs Department to report a beneficiary to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System to keep guns out of the hands of those prohibited under federal law from purchasing or possessing firearms,' the White House statement of...
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