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UPDATE (Wednesday, June 5):<\/strong> The House of Representatives listened and passed H.R. 8580 by a vote of 209-196 with GOA-backed provisions to protect tens of thousands of veterans from being unconstitutionally disarmed by President Joe Biden’s bureaucrats. The key vote from yesterday can be found here<\/a>, where \u2018Aye\u2019 is the correct vote. The bill now moves to the Senate.<\/p>\n ORIGINAL ALERT (Tuesday, June 4):<\/strong> Imagine risking your life to defend our country, only for Biden\u2019s bureaucrats to put your name in an FBI database and deprive you of your God-given right to keep and bear arms.<\/p>\n Thankfully, an appropriations bill that is set to come to the House floor any day now gives us the opportunity to protect U.S. veterans from the predatory bureaucratic nonsense that has been used to ban them from owning a firearm.<\/p>\n H.R. 8580, the Military Construction, Veteran Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act of 2025<\/em>, contains language that would prevent the Department of Veteran Affairs from disarming our nation\u2019s veterans.<\/p>\n And right on cue, the White House is now officially lobbying against the passage of H.R. 8580 to ensure Biden\u2019s bureaucrats can continue disarming veterans.<\/u><\/p>\n If the Biden Administration has zero shame in slashing the gun rights of those who thanklessly served our country, then they\u2019ll have no problem coming for yours.<\/strong><\/p>\n That\u2019s why GOA needs your help countering the White House\u2019s lobbying efforts by urging your Representative to support the gun rights of our nation\u2019s veterans.<\/p>\n Please add your name to our pre-written letter urging your Representative to support both Section 261 of H.R. 8580 and Rep. Eli Crane\u2019s Amendment No. 31 which protect the Second Amendment rights of our nation\u2019s veterans.<\/a><\/p>\n GOA members like you were very instrumental in persuading Congress to pass Public Law 118-42 earlier this year. This law stopped the VA\u2019s unconstitutional reporting of approximately 20,000 veterans per year to the FBI\u2019s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) \u2013 but only until it expires later this fall.<\/p>\n That\u2019s why Section 261 and Amendment No. 31 are so critical, as they would extend this critical protection for veterans for another year by inserting it into the government appropriations.<\/p>\n Up until this point, veterans who had a fiduciary appointed to them to manage their finances were reported to the FBI and denied their right to own a firearm.<\/strong><\/p>\n No veteran should be deprived of their Second Amendment rights because they need support to manage their finances. Frankly, no veteran should be deprived of their God-given rights \u2013 period.<\/em><\/p>\n While it certainly was a victory to protect gun-owning veterans from having their names screened by the FBI going forward, there are still more than a QUARTER OF A MILLION veterans who are already prohibited from exercising their Second Amendment rights based on their prior appointment of a fiduciary.<\/p>\n Congress must remove the names of veterans who were already determined \u201cprohibited\u201d persons based on the appointment of a fiduciary.<\/strong><\/p>\n That\u2019s why our pre-written letter also encourages your representative to support GOA\u2019s and Rep. Eli Crane\u2019s ongoing push to REMOVE the names of ALL veterans who have already been put into the NICS system.<\/em><\/p>\n With H.R. 8580 set to come to the floor any day now \u2013 and the White House already beginning its pressure campaign to defeat it \u2013 GOA needs YOUR help pressuring the House to save the gun rights of America\u2019s veterans.<\/p>\n