Read that carefully. The prior policy treated a veteran who needed someone to help manage benefit payments the same way the federal government treats convicted felons and the adjudicated mentally ill. The veteran didn't commit a crime. The veteran wasn't found by a court to be a danger. The veteran asked for help writing checks.
The practice had been in place for decades. A veteran could lose a limb, suffer a traumatic brain injury, or return home with PTSD, and the moment the VA appointed a fiduciary to help manage that veteran's benefits, the government quietly added a name to the same database used to stop felons from buying guns.
No law was passed with their names on it. A bureaucratic process simply treated financial assistance as evidence of mental deficiency, and NICS did the rest. Pam Bondi stopped it. [VA News]
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