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Originally Posted by Brush Okie
So what mental issues that veterans have could qualify? Anything? Trooper snuffy goes through a divorce so his CO sends him to counseling to cover his ass and bam on the list. What about PTSD? How severe does he have to have it? Remember they found the Melfiquin caused brain damage to a lot of people and mimics PTSD. What about a trooper that was caught in an IED and his bell was rung so he was a little off for a couple weeks? Where do we draw the line?
Why can a senior that can not take care of themselves have a gun? Granted some should not but what if it is a physical problem not a mental one but a physical one? Where is the line drawn? I believe the law already states anyone mentally defective can not buy a firearm. also do you think anyone that is mentally adjudicated due to dementia would be able to fill out the form to begin with? Have you ever worked with someone like that? They can not fill out the form, kind of a check onto its self.
What would expanding the data base do? It missed the last asshole that should have been on there. Do you think it will stop any crimes at all. Look how making meth and heroin have really stopped the spread of illegal drugs. What puts people on this crime list? A warrant for a speeding ticket they paid but the county screwed it up and did not record it and issued a warrant? (I seen this happen)
Even if they make it reasonable what will the courts do with it in a few years? Remember once the camel has its nose under the tent the next Obama could run with it.
No real bad idea. Adding more laws on top of the ones that already exist will not help anything but only create more bullshit in the long run. The good idea fairy strikes again.
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Below is a much shorter version of an earlier post - calls on bureaucrats to do their jobs and keep
criminals and the
mentally ill from possessing firearms is a good thing - rather than blanket bans on law abiding folks from possessing firearms.
Watch the video at link.
Some people should not have guns.
NOVEMBER 8, 2017
NSSF ON CNN HEADLINE NEWS: FIXNICS | GUN BACKGROUND CHECKS
Since 2013, NSSF has led the successful
nationwide FixNICS initiative effort to improve the reporting of all criminal and adjudicated mental health records by the states to NICS. To date, 16 states have adopted NSSF-led FixNICS changes. Since the campaign was launched through the end of 2016, the number of disqualifying mental health records submitted to NICS increased by 170 percent to nearly 4.5 million, from about 1.7 million in December 2012.
https://www.nssf.org/nssf-cnn-headli...t+Relations%29