A shocking memorandum uncovered by The Daily Caller reveals that the Department of Veterans Administration (VA) is sharing confidential veteran medical information with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to stop veterans from buying firearms and to seize firearms veterans already own.
The transfer of confidential health information about veterans from the VA to the FBI is a violation of federal law and constitutes a direct attack on the Second Amendment right of veterans to own and use firearms for hunting, shooting and self-defense.
Never the less, the VA sends veterans’ personal medical and financial information directly to the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, which can seize their guns in home raids.
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By Larry Keane
When The New York Times tells America they publish “All the News That’s Fit to Print,” what they’re really saying is that it’s only the news that fits their narrative.
The New York Times ran a recent piece that attempted to broad-brush paint the entire firearm community as trying to do everything possible to literally get the ceiling to cave in on the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). The article headlined “How the A.T.F., Key to Biden’s Gun Plan, Became the NRA Whipping Boy,” used an anecdote of the floor collapsing, allegedly due to the weight of stacked paper investigations, at the ATF’s national gun-tracing center.
Report: Gun Sales Rise for 13th Straight Month Because ‘Americans Realized They are Their Own First Responder’ By Craig Bannister | May 4, 2021 | 10:18am EDT
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U.S. firearms sales rose for the 13
th straight month last month, recording the highest April tally on record, analysis by the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) shows.
NSSF uses, and also adjusts, FBI gun license background check data to estimate monthly gun sales. Both measures reflect an increase in gun purchases, Townhall reports:
“The April 2021 NSSF-adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) figure of 1,694,118 is an increase of 0.9 percent compared to the April 2020 NSSF-adjusted NICS figure of 1,678,223. For comparison, the unadjusted April 2021 FBI NICS figure 3,485,016 reflects a 21.1 percent increase from the unadjusted FBI NICS figure of 2,878,176 in April 2020.”
NICS Gun Check Figures Surpass any April in History Last month was the highest April in terms of federal background checks for gun transfers since the system was established over two decades ago. The unadjusted data of 3,485,016 checks conducted through the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System for April 2021 is a 21.1 percent jump from the unadjusted FBI NICS figure of 2,878,176 in April 2020. When the data is filtered by the National Shooting Sports Foundation to remove figures for gun permit checks by states which use NICS for that purpose, the number of checks stands at 1,694,118, which is a slim increase of about 1 percent compared to the April 2020 NSSF-adjusted NICS figure of 1,678,223. While that sounds uninspiring, keep in mind that last April was by far a record for the program, meaning that even a small increase beyond that is significant when compared to past buying patterns.