In a massive win for Second Amendment advocates, the Department of Veterans Affairs has quietly pulled the plug on one of the most insidious bureaucratic assaults on veterans’ gun rights: reporting those under fiduciary oversight to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS). For years, the VA’s policy flagged vets who needed help managing their finances—often due to age, injury, or simple paperwork—as mental defectives, stripping them of their constitutional right to bear arms without due process. This wasn’t about public safety; it was a backdoor gun grab, ensnaring honorable service members who posed no threat, all under the guise of Brady Act compliance. Now, the VA is halting these reports, a direct reversal that restores dignity and firepower to those who’ve already sacrificed for our freedoms.

This shift isn’t just bureaucratic housekeeping—it’s a seismic crack in the anti-gun edifice that’s long targeted veterans as low-hanging fruit. Remember the 2013 Obama-era push to expand this reporting, which gun rights groups like the NRA and GOA fought tooth and nail? It symbolized how federal agencies weaponize fiduciary status—a non-clinical designation for financial assistance—against the 2A. Critics, including the Firearms Policy Coalition, hailed it as unconstitutional overreach, arguing it bypassed judicial review and lumped in everyone from wheelchair-bound heroes to grandpas with bad bookkeepers. By stopping the flow to NICS, the VA acknowledges the emperor’s naked: mere financial dependency doesn’t equal danger. Data backs this up—NICS denials from VA reports were a tiny fraction of total blocks (under 1% annually), yet they fueled narratives of crazy vets that anti-2A outfits like Everytown love to peddle.

For the 2A community, the implications are electric: this precedent could dismantle similar red-flag schemes nationwide, forcing gun-grabbers to prove actual threats in court rather than rubber-stamp prohibitions. It’s a reminder that vigilance pays off—veterans’ groups, pro-2A litigators, and even congressional pressure (shoutout to Sen. Cotton’s oversight) turned the tide. But don’t pop the champagne yet; the ATF and Biden’s executive orders still loom, eyeing broader adjudicated expansions. Patriots, stay locked and loaded—this victory arms us for the next battle. Share this far and wide; our vets deserve nothing less.