No, this isn't me.
...but it could be.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?...92304936.97576.100002266371223&type=1&theater
...but it could be.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?...92304936.97576.100002266371223&type=1&theater
No, this isn't me.
...but it could be.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?...92304936.97576.100002266371223&type=1&theater
I'm skeptical because I don't know the gentleman's circumstances. Usually fuduciaries were enacted only because patients had shown that they could not manage their funds and were blowing their checks on street drugs or alcohol or the family members were abusing the funds because of the patient's age. That said, these new rules are ripe for abuse because there is no judge involved in the decision that ultimately strips gun rights from the patients. Also, even though there is an appeals process, last I checked there was a 2 year backlog and that was before these new rules went into effect.
I'm not even going to get started! However I will throw this out there. Why is there an emphasis on telling these guys in the letter about the prohibition of obtaining a firearm?
Sits while blood boils!
Reporting requirements and/or policy changed with VA Hospitals. If you receive a Fiduciary Judgement (deemed unable to manage your own finances, ie: your VA Check) they are now turning you over to NICS.
So, you volunteer to serve your country; they send you off to war; you get unbelievable images of death and killing permanently ingrained in your head while you're there; you come home and get treated like a leper; and when you seek help they screw you out of benefits and take your Right to protect yourself away from you.
You Vets tell me! Do you think your comrades with PTSD are this much of a threat to themselves and others?
Not sure if we are there yet though. Re-read my first post in this thread.
Personally I think the only thing protecting this from being abused is the sheer volume of paperwork it takes to make a Fiduciary happen. In my personal experience someone had to be really fcking up PROPER to have one handed down, OR an aged vet in question had several volumes documented on the family not looking out for his well being and abusing his check. Now they could eventually streamline the process........
I'm tracking the firearms prohibition in this though, mostly. If PTSD and chronic pain is the reason this guy is being issued this letter; then I suppose we would have to know the degree of his PTSD. The reason I ask above is, if the feds are going to allow a Psych Dr. to determine whether or not someone has PTSD, what benchmark is going to be used to decide where the line is to deny them possession of firearms? Thereafter, if they think someone is too unstable to own a firearm, then I want to know if regular citizens should fear vets with any form of PTSD?
So, I ask again; what do you fellow vets think? Would you trust another vet who had PTSD in the duck blind with you? Rabbit hunting? At a skeet range? A USPSA shoot?
Funny, the vet is incompetent, can't manage his finances, irresponsible with firearms, yes can read the document with understanding.. Love it.