VA Restores Veterans’ Second Amendment Rights After Decades of Unconstitutional Disarmament - Ammoland.com

For more than 30 years, American veterans who bravely defended our freedoms were stripped of their own Second Amendment rights — not through any crime, not by a judge’s order, and not because they were a danger to anyone — but simply because they needed help managing their VA benefits under a fiduciary program. That changed on February 17, 2026, when the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) formally ended this unconstitutional practice.

A Unilateral Bureaucratic Gun Ban Ends

Under decades-old policy, veterans who lacked the ability to manage their financial affairs — often due to service-related disabilities — were automatically reported by the VA to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) as “prohibited persons.” This reporting effectively barred them from legally owning or purchasing firearms.

In its official announcement, the VA acknowledged that this practice violated both the Gun Control Act and the constitutional rights of veterans, because the department was making life-altering disability determinations without any judicial or quasi-judicial due process — a fundamental right in American law.

Effective immediately, the VA will no longer report veterans to NICS solely because they need fiduciary help, and it is working with the FBI to remove veterans’ names that were improperly submitted in the past.

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