For what it's worth, I'm a veteran that spends some time at the VA, and I have lots of friends that spend time at the VA, and I want you to know that the VA app

For what it's worth, I'm a veteran that spends some time at the VA, and I have lots of friends that spend time at the VA, and I want you to know that the VA applies this label very liberally and sometimes without justification. I think crazy people should not have access to firearms, but I also want you to understand very carefully that the VA is not very accurate as an organization. There are no second opinions in the VA's decision-making process, the decision can be made by any "clinician" (including PAs), and once the label is applied -- regardless of the accuracy of the label -- it can literally take years to appeal this decision. I am currently waiting for an appeal for an unrelated, relatively minor condition, and I've now been waiting three years for a decision on my appeal, and this isn't an unusual amount of time to wait. There's a running joke that the VA's got a saying about veterans: "Delay and deny until they die". I think the VA should not be making the decision, and that the "mentally incapacitated" label should be applied only by doctors external to the organization (or at the very least a doctor), and there should be more than one doctor that participates in the decision. At the end of the day, regardless of what non-Americans think of our Constitution, we're talking about taking someone's fundamental rights away, and that should be an extremely careful and efficient and accurate decision-making process (with a timely appeal system!).