Following Bost Push, VA Officially Halts Reporting Veterans to NICS List without Due Process

WASHINGTON, DC – Last week, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced that following H.R. 4366, the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2024, which included Chairman Bost’s language to prohibit VA from submitting a veteran or beneficiary’s name to the FBI’s NICS list without a judge’s consent, being signed into law the agency would only report to NICS in instances when VA is aware that a mentally incompetent beneficiary has been found by a judicial authority to be a danger to themselves or others. Effectively restoring due process rights for our nation’s veterans. This move was in line with Chairman Bost’s March 11th letter when he requested that VA Secretary Denis McDonough provide Congress with a date and detailed plan by which they would stop sending veterans with fiduciaries names to the FBI’s NICS list. As Chairman Bost previously stated, “For far too long, the men and women who have fought for all American’s constitutional rights were wrongfully treated differently when it came to their own rights. No veteran sh...

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