he US Congress is pushing new regulations to restrict gun ownership following the recent mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, Ohio.

The “Red Flag” legislation will allow government officials to restrict gun ownership of certain US citizens.

Back in 2014 there were reports that the Obama administration was plotting to take Second Amendment rights away from US veterans.

The new “red flag” legislation plays right into the hands of gun-grabbing Democrats.

As we reported back in 2014….

As The Gateway Pundit reported in January 2014….

US veterans started receiving letters from the government last year informing them that they are disabled and not allowed to own, purchase or possess a firearm. If the veteran does decide to purchase a firearm he will by fined, imprisoned or both. This comes on page 2 of the VA letter.

Here is the full copy of the letter-

Here is page 1 of the letter:

Here is page 2:

The majority of US veterans receive basically the same letter. Many of the veterans do not even know the VA declared them incompetent. The targeted veterans say the VA offers an appeals process but then does not share required information.

VA Benefits Administrators are the ones making these declarations against veterans robbing them of their due process rights and arbitrarily submitting their names to the FBI’s NICS database without cause and many times without a veteran’s knowledge.

This is an outrage!

Last April the United States Justice Foundation (USJF) filed a suit against the Obama Administration on behalf of these abused veterans. Katharine Russ reported:

The United States Justice Foundation (USJF) has filed the first lawsuit of what promises to be a string of lawsuits in the US District Court for the Southern District of California against the US Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) and the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA)…

…Current policies of the VA have caused more than 129,000 veterans to, arbitrarily, be deprived of their Second Amendment Rights to own firearms without due process simply because they were declared financially “incompetent.”

These arbitrary policies, in no way, consider whether a veteran represents a danger to themselves or to others.

It is, unequivocally, unsound and irrational thinking that sends our young men and women off to war and expects them to come home “whole.

” Most veterans experience minor depression, minor PTSD, and even minor short-term memory loss when they return home but can still function- competently.

No court would find them incompetent and strip them of their second amendment rights for such minor diagnoses unless they were proven to be a detriment to society. In some these cases, the VA does not even offer reasons or evidence for such a Determination.

It is outrageous to think that over 100,000 US veterans are the victims of this sort of abuse. US veterans deserve the same Constitutional rights as the rest of us.

NRA-backed Ohio Republicans now calling for gun control after Dayton shooting

This article was sourced from NYpost

A trio of Ohio Republicans have bucked their National Rifle Association backing to lobby for tighter gun control — including a ban on sales of assault rifles — in the wake of Sunday’s mass shooting in Dayton.

Rep. Mike Turner, whom the NRA endorsed with an ‘A’ rating ahead of the 2018 midterm elections, said Tuesday that he now backs legislation that “prevents the sale of military-style weapons to civilians, a magazine limit, and red flag legislation.”

“I strongly support the Second Amendment, but we must prevent mentally unstable people from terrorizing our communities with military-style weapons,” said Turner in a statement.

“The carnage these military-style weapons are able to produce when available to the wrong people is intolerable.

Turner’s 180-degree turn on assault rifles came after he revealed that his daughter and a family friend were in downtown Dayton’s Oregon District early Sunday when Connor Betts, 24, opened fire with an AR-15-style rifle, killing nine people before he was gunned down by cops.

“As a result of the police’s actions, my daughter and hundreds of others who were in the Oregon District last night are alive,” said Turner on Sunday. “This is an unbelievable amount of evil that we cannot comprehend.”

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (center) delivers a statement with Lt. Gov. Jon Husted, and First Lady Fran DeWine, following the Dayton mass shooting.AP

Gov. Mike DeWine and Lt. Gov. Jon Husted, both of whom were endorsed alongside Turner by the NRA, have also come around on steps towards gun control.

DeWine — who was besieged by mourners’ calls of “Do something!” during a vigil in Dayton — also came out Tuesday in favor of background checks for most gun purchases in his state, as well as restricting firearms access to people perceived as unstable.

“We know there’s going to be some violence; it’s the world we live in,” said DeWine. “But I can tell you this: If we do these things, it will matter. If we do these things, it will make us safer.”

Husted, speaking Wednesday on CNN’s “New Day,” said that he hopes President Trump’s visit to Dayton will open his eyes that change is needed.

“When he visits the site and sees the bullet holes and the bloodstains, I think that has an effect on you as a human being,” said Husted. “I think the president needs to see that and search his heart and his mind to respond to what the people of Dayton will be asking him to do.”