Republicans got help from three Democrats and two independents to prevent mentally incompetent veterans from being automatically reported for gun background checks.
, the U.S. Senate voted to prohibit the Veterans Administration from automatically reporting to the FBI background checks system the names of veterans deemed mentally incompetent who had relinquished the management of their finances to others.
Newsom didn’t mention party affiliation in his missive. He didn’t have to. Congress’s inability to act on gun control is well-known. Besides, Newsom is raising money for Sen. Tester’s re-election. Supporting gun rights is a given in Montana, and so is keeping the Senate in Democratic hands. You can’t have one without the other.
The amendment would have languished like so many others in these chaotic weeks if Kennedy hadn’t played hardball. As a member of the powerful Appropriations Committee, he held up a crucial appropriations bill until he cut a deal with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to allow a vote on his amendment in exchange for lifting his hold on the long-delayed bill.
The amendment’s author, Sen. Kennedy, sees it differently. “Veterans who sacrificed to defend our Constitution shouldn’t see their own rights rest on the judgment of unelected bureaucrats—but right now, they do,” he told Fox News Digital. “Every veteran who bravely serves our country has earned VA benefits, and it’s wrong for the government to punish veterans who get a helping hand to manage those resources.
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