RW19 wrote:
The problem with the no-fly list, and the mental disability requisite, is that they're both not real clear on how you get placed on those lists, nor is there any way of getting yourself off the lists once you can prove you're competent to own a gun.
DHS is currently or will soon be notifying all U.S citizens who are on the no-fly list that they are on the list and why. Also, one can appeal their listing and have their status changed.
The Gun Control Act of 1968 prohibits any person from selling or otherwise transferring a firearm or ammunition to any person who has been “adjudicated as a mental defective” or “committed to any mental institution.” According to federal regulations, a person has been “adjudicated as a mental defective” if a court, board, commission or other lawful authority has determined that he or she, as a result of marked subnormal intelligence, or mental illness, incompetency, condition, or disease: (1) is a danger to himself, herself, or others, or (2) lacks the mental capacity to contract or manage his or her own affairs.
Most people including Senator Cornyn with his proposed legislation (and the NRA) think keeping guns from the mentally ill is a worthy objective. Is it totally achievable? Is any law totally effective???
