EXCLUSIVE — U.S. Navy Vet: Veterans Affairs Gun Locks ‘Another Obama Back Door Gun Control Measure’

EXCLUSIVE — U.S. Navy Vet: Veterans Affairs Gun Locks ‘Another Obama Back Door Gun Control Measure’

by Alex Swoyer26 May 2015Washington, DC

Former United States Navy Veteran, Certified National Recruiter, and Commander of the Elm Grove Memorial Veterans of Foreign Wars Vernon Anderson told Breitbart News exclusively that the Department of Veteran’s Affairs’ Gun Lock push is “another Obama back door gun control measure.”

According to an earlier NPR report noting veteran suicide statistics, “The VA is trying to help with a program that offers gun locks to veterans for free. The thinking is that if they lock their guns up they might not reach for them in the spur of the moment.”

But many critics argue this is a government form used to get veterans to identify if they own a firearm, creating a federal registry. Anderson supplied three letters he received in a packet from the VA. One is titled “Veterans Crisis Line Public Fact Sheet” detailing the VA help line. Another document is a gun safety pamphlet, providing gun safety facts and statistics. The third document is a lock order form to be returned to the VA once it is completed with paid postage supplied by the VA. It requires the veteran’s name, address and exact number of gunlocks needed.

Bullets First Blogger Tony Oliva wrote earlier this year that a letter was sent out to veterans stating:

“As your partner in healthcare, we are committed to keeping you and your family safe. Gun locks have been shown to greatly reduce death and injury caused by firearms in the home. If you own a gun, we hope you will request and use a gun lock.”

Oliva mocked, “That’s right. “Just give us all the information we want about your guns and we will give you a shiny new gun lock for each of them… so it will be harder for you to get to them when we storm your house in the middle of the night to take them.” Oliva writes

Don’t get me wrong, there is nothing inherently evil about gun locks if you have kids in your household and whatnot but let’s not pretend that this isn’t a blatant attempt to get firearm information of people that this administration views as a threat. If the VA was REALLY interested in handing out safety locks, they would make the locks available at VA offices, hospitals and clinics for vets to come in and take a couple without having to forfeit their privacy to their ever invasive eye of the government.

Oliva is calling for the veterans to take a pass on this offer.

U.S. Navy Veteran Vernon Anderson echoes Oliva’s concerns.

As a commander of the Elm Grove Memorial VFW Post 4442, he oversees 10 offices in the VFW. “So, I have some knowledge of what is going on with the Veterans Administration and our Veterans,” he exclusively told Breitbart News.

“I do not feel the Veterans Administration should be spending our taxpayer dollars sending these kinds of letters to our Veterans. The VA has a finite budget and they should be using all their resources to do the job Congress has assigned to them,” Anderson said.

Anderson told Breitbart News, the federal government is also potentially targeting veterans who are suffering from PTSD.

“If these Veterans say the wrong thing when visiting the VA the VA then turns that information over to the FBI and the information is entered into the National Instant Check System. This is the background system which is used whenever a person purchases a firearm. The Veteran doesn’t find out about this until the next time they attempt to purchase a firearm,” explained Anderson.

“I do not like what is happening. But I especially do not think the VA should be doing this with tax payer money,” he said. “This is not one of the functions the VA has been assigned. This is another Obama back door gun control measure.”

Breitbart News reached out to the Department of Veterans Affairs but has not yet received comment on this issue.

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Note: Chuck Hagel was the deputy administrator for the U.S. Veterans Administration, the chairman for the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank), and is the secretary at the U.S. Department of Defense for the Barack Obama administration.

Eric K. Shinseki was a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank), and the secretary at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs for the Barack Obama administration.

Togo D. West Jr. was the secretary at the U.S. Department of Veterans, and is a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank).

Open Society Foundations was a funder for the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank), and the Center for American Progress.

George Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, was a benefactor for the Harlem Children's Zone, a supporter for the Center for American Progress, a benefactor for the NPR, and the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Harlem Children's Zone, the Robin Hood Foundation, the Sundance Institute, the Center for American Progress, and the NPR.

Michael R. Bloomberg was a benefactor for the Harlem Children's Zone, a donor for the Robin Hood Foundation, the New York (NY) mayor, is a co-chair for Mayors Against Illegal Guns, and the founder for Everytown for Gun Safety.  

Kenneth D. Cole is a trustee at the Sundance Institute, and married to Maria Cuomo Cole.

Maria Cuomo Cole is married to Maria Cuomo Cole, and a trustee at the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence.

Joyce Foundation was a funder for the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence.

Valerie B. Jarrett was a director at the Joyce Foundation, a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and the senior adviser for the Barack Obama administration.

Melody C. Barnes was the domestic policy council, director for the Barack Obama administration, a principal for the Raben Group, the EVP for the Center for American Progress, and is Barack Obama’s golf partner.

Raben Group is the lobby firm for Mayors Against Illegal Guns.

John D. Podesta is the founder of the Center for American Progress, Anthony T. Podesta’s brother, and was a counselor for the Barack Obama administration.

Anthony T. Podesta is John D. Podesta’s brother, and the founder & chairman for the Podesta Group.

Podesta Group was the lobby firm for the NPR.

Lauren Maddox is a principal for the Podesta Group, and a board member for the American Action Forum.

Thomas J. Ridge was a board member or the American Action Forum, and an advisory board member for Everytown for Gun Safety.