(TNND) — Companion bills in the House and Senate are intended to protect Second Amendment rights for veterans.

The bills would prevent Veterans Affairs from reporting veterans’ names to the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System as part of some benefit-related actions.

Bill authors said the NICS reporting in those cases strips veterans of their Second Amendment rights to buy and own a gun without the due process afforded to other Americans.

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Jim Whaley, a 20-year Army veteran and the CEO of advocacy group Mission Roll Call, applauded the lawmakers for seeking a legislative change to this reporting requirement. “Their Second Amendment rights are clearly violated, because a judge is never involved in that,” Whaley said. “It’s an administrative action. So, I think everybody realizes that’s not fair, especially for those that are defending our rights.”

“At the very best, it’s been a mistake or a loophole,” Mission Roll Call’s Whaley said. “At the worst, it is administrative bureaucracy run amok.”

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