This email was forwarded to me via the grapevine from a Texas Vet:

I had a doctors appointment at the local VA clinic yesterday and found something very interesting I would like to pass along. While going through triage before seeing the doctor, I was asked at the end of the exam, three questions:

1. Did I feel stressed?
2. Did I feel threatened?
3. Did I feel like doing harm to someone?

The nurse then informed me, if I had answered yes to any of the questions, I would have lost my concealed carry permit as it would have gone into my medical records and the VA would have reported it to Homeland Security.

I am a Vietnam vet and 15 year cc permit holder. Looks like they are going after us vets.. Be forewarned and be aware. The Obama administration has gone on record as considering veterans and gun owners as potential terrorists. If you are a veteran, you've been warned. If you know veterans, please pass this on to them.

Please track down and confirm this before it spreads too far. Forwarded e-mails are notoriously unreliable......

It does sound like something this bunch of anti-American's would try though. They are masters of "back-dooring".

Bob

I serious doubt this email.
1. What does a nurse know about State gun laws.
2. Concealed carry permits are issued by the State not the Fed.
3. Homeland Security has more things to worry about than if you are stressed, threatened, or are going harm to someone.

The nurse may belive what was said, but that doesn't make it true.

They do actually ask similar mental heath screening questions.... but it's not a nefarious Obama Administration conspiracy to take away guns.

Fact is they've been doing this for years.

And if you answered ALL of the questions wrong, it would still not result in your concealed carry permit being revoked.

I call BS!

Folks, let's worry about REAL threats to the right to keep and bear arms and not this paranoid "Chicken Little" fearmongering BS!

I was at the VA hospital Monday morning. Nobody asked me any of those questions.

DaMan is correct in this instance.

Rich
DRSS

Never had those questions asked by the VA or Army hospital, but they're routinely asked by my Air Force clinic!

I agree with DaMan

Total BS! This forwarded e-mail is rumor spreading.
These questions are likely paraphrasing of the standard Joint Commission Screening question and nothing more. The paraphrased questions are standard questions that nurses ask patients before the patient sees the doctor intended to screen for depression and domestic violence. If you are asked these questions, the clinic is just trying to meet the Joint Commission standards.

The logical thing is to delete the post.


Wes

I routinely tell medical providers that I will not answer these types of questions as they have nothing to do with my visit. My counsellor/chaplian and I can discuss these items, and they would be completely appropriate, as well as privledged....

Remember, anything you can say, can and WILL be used against you....

Also, the VA had been taking PTSD/combat stress patients and reporting them to the feds for this very purpose-many many vets are in fact prohibited from firearms based on diagnosis of such issues alone, and the feds gladly have restricted them w/o adjudication of disiability.... Person must work through an administrative process (not a court, but a admin law judge process) to regain 2nd Amendment rights.

The NRA worked to pass legislation in 2008 IIRC, to provide a remedy for such admin disabilities, requiring clear court adjudication of any disability based on actual risk, not solely diagnosis of such conditions, falss under mentai incapciation.

While it is not a rampant problem, it IS a problem.

Best;

Most simply have stopped asking, and my records now magically indiate "NA" next to each of these items ....

Not rampant at all. I have a friend who is drawing disability pay for PTSD. He's a cop. Yes he patrols in a cruiser and carries a gun.

Jetdriver is posting bs.