This thing about veterans and guns is not new. When my Dad had Alzheimer’s 5 years ago and began to forget to pay his bills, I legally became his guardian. It wasn’t any time at all before the gub’mint sent him a form saying “now that you are incompetent, you no longer have a right to own a gun”. But that was because he was legally declared incompetent to handle his own affairs...now it looks as if just being a veteran may be enough to lose your rights.
As a veteran, I thank your father for his service to our country and commend you for your loyalty & duty. My wife’s mother succumbed to Alzheimer’s and she too is at risk but it is a crying shame how the government now uses peoples’ infirmities as a lever to exert power over them.
If forgetting to pay your bills means mental incompetence I should have been sent up long ago. My wife forgets some small thing and she thinks it’s all over. We are being manipulated to believe that occasional lapses mean it’s time for the nanny state to intervene with an iron boot.
But their coming for your Dad’s guns - that’s scary & shows their real intent.