{"id":149052,"date":"2023-10-27T11:15:48","date_gmt":"2023-10-27T15:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=149052"},"modified":"2023-10-26T20:52:38","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T00:52:38","slug":"kennedy-amendment-protecting-veteran-second-amendment-rights-passes-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=149052","title":{"rendered":"Kennedy amendment protecting Veteran second amendment rights passes Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/vets.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-148606\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/vets-300x275.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/vets-300x275.png 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/vets-363x333.png 363w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/vets.png 639w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Senator John Kennedy, R-LA, introduced an amendment that aims to protect the second amendment rights of Veterans if the Department of Veterans Affairs manages their finances. Currently, if a Veteran asks for help with managing their finances in a conservatorship, the Department of Veterans Affairs reports that veteran&#8217;s name to the FBI.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From Fox News:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Senate passed an amendment introduced by Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., that protects veterans&#8217; Second Amendment rights if the Department of Veterans Affairs steps in to manage their financial benefits.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate voted 53 to 45 Wednesday in approval of the amendment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Veterans who sacrificed to defend our Constitution shouldn&#8217;t see their own rights rest on the judgment of unelected bureaucrats&#8211;but right now, they do,&#8221; Kennedy told Fox News Digital on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My amendment would prevent government workers from unduly stripping veterans of their right to bear arms. Every veteran who bravely serves our country has earned VA benefits, and it&#8217;s wrong for the government to punish veterans who get a helping hand to manage those resources.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Under current law, the Department of Veterans Affairs reports a veteran&#8217;s name to the FBI&#8217;s National Instant Criminal Background Check System when they seek help managing their finances in a conservatorship.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If a veteran who defended this country has to go to the VA and ask for help managing his or her financial affairs, the VA automatically reports that veteran to the FBI National Instant Criminal Background Check System . . . and that veteran loses his firearm,&#8221; Kennedy said on the floor of the Senate Wednesday. &#8220;Automatically. No due process.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fox News has additional information <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/senate-passes-kennedy-amendment-protecting-veterans-second-amendment-rights\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator John Kennedy, R-LA, introduced an amendment that aims to protect the second amendment rights of &hellip; <a title=\"Kennedy amendment protecting Veteran second amendment rights passes Senate\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=149052\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kennedy amendment protecting Veteran second amendment rights passes Senate<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[397,118,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-second-amendment","category-veterans-issues","category-veterans-affairs-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}