By Travis J. Tritten
A Senate panel chairman rekindled a debate Wednesday over whether veterans who cannot manage their own benefits should be considered “mentally defective” by the FBI and barred from buying guns.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder saying veterans issued a fiduciary by the Department of Veterans Affairs are still being automatically flagged in the electronic database used to vet firearms sales across the country.
Past analysis has found more than 99 percent of the names listed as mentally defective in the FBI’s database came from the VA, and the issue has caused heated debates on Capitol Hill in recent years.
“Congress needs to understand what justifies taking such action without more due process 
protections for the veteran,” Grassley, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, wrote in the letter to Holder.
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