A couple weeks ago we wrote about how the fed is about to rule that more than 4,000,000 social security recipients do not have 2nd Amendment Rights. The regulation in question basically claims that anyone who has assistance filing their social security paperwork or getting payments set up is not competent enough to do their own finances and therefor is not competent enough to own a firearm.
I don’t remember reading in the 2nd amendment that you have a right to keep and bear arms unless you hire someone to help you with your accounting. But apparently that’s what the fed is suggesting.
At the time of the story we didn’t yet have examples of how such a “rule” would be used against Americans. Now we do. Only it’s not Social Security where it happened. It’s the VA.
Indeed, the VA sent a veteran a letter stating they would be sending an inspector/officer to his home to confiscate his firearms. Why? Because he checked a box on his paperwork stating that he gets assistance dealing with his finances.
The inspector was schedule to confiscate the guns yesterday (August 6). That plan quickly fell apart, however, when the County Sheriff, two State Representatives and about 100 local patriots rallied at the vet’s home to protect him from the 2nd amendment violation.
The AP has more.
A group of residents in northern Idaho lined up outside a U.S. Navy veteran’s house on Thursday to protest claims that federal officials are planning on confiscating the man’s weapons.
Idaho Republican state Rep. Heather Scott of Blanchard said the Veteran Affairs office has sent a letter to John Arnold of Priest River warning him that he cannot possess or purchase firearms.
The protest -spearheaded by Scott- attracted roughly 100 people. Among them were Bonner County Sheriff Daryl Wheeler, who promised to stand guard against any federal attempts to remove Arnold’s guns, and Republican Washington state Rep. Matthew Shea of Spokane Valley, who described the event as a “defiance against tyranny.”
“I took an oath to uphold the U.S. Constitution and uphold the laws of Idaho,” Wheeler said. “This seemed appropriate to show my support. I was going to make sure Mr. Arnold’s rights weren’t going to be breached.”
It’s probably very safe to say this is just the beginning. We’re going to be seeing a LOT more of it in the coming months and years.
