Bars the Veterans Affairs Secretary from sending a beneficiary's personal information to the Justice Department's gun background check system when the only basis is a decision to pay benefits to a fiduciary, unless a judge or other judicial authority finds the beneficiary is a danger to themselves or others.

• Prohibits the Secretary from transmitting a beneficiary's personally identifiable information to the Justice Department for the National Instant Criminal Background Check System based solely on a decision to pay benefits to a fiduciary, absent a judicial finding of danger to self or others.
• Requires the Secretary, within 30 days of enactment, to notify the Attorney General that the basis for such transmittals made on or after November 30, 1993, does not apply or no longer applies.
• Provides that a determination of mental incompetence, or a need for a fiduciary, is not by itself a basis for treating a person as adjudicated a mental defective.
• Adds sections 5501B through 5501D to chapter 55 of title 38, United States Code.

• Veterans' Affairs Committee (House)
• Veterans' Affairs Committee (Senate)

Armed Forces and National Security