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NEW VETERANS SECRETARY JAMES PEAKE WILL FACE TREMENDOUS CHALLENGE IMPLEMENTING NEW GUN BACKGROUND CHECK SYSTEM Joint Release from Coalition to Stop Gun Violence and Violence Policy Center December 20, 2007 The Bush Administration’s new incoming Secretary of Veterans Affairs, James Peake, will almost immediately be faced with implementing a program to allow veterans currently prohibited from buying guns for mental health reasons to regain the ability to legally acquire firearms. The just-passed “NICS Improvement Act” requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to establish a “relief from disability” program to allow persons now prohibited from possessing a firearm because they have “been adjudicated as a mental defective” or “committed to a mental institution” to apply to have their bar on firearms possession removed. The Secretary will have only 120 days to implement the new program. More than 116,000 veterans are currently eligible to apply. GUN LOBBY HIJACKS BILL INTENDED TO IMPROVE GUN BUYER BACKGROUND CHECKS Joint Release from Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, Violence Policy Center, and Legal Community Against Violence December 19, 2007 Leading national gun violence prevention organizations today warned that a bill intended to improve the records available to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS)—the national system used to screen gun buyers—has been hijacked by the gun lobby and would now do far more harm than good. |
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