PTSD and CHL's

[mommagamber]

A fellow CHL instructor has been asked by veterans diagnosed with PTSD if they will pass the background check. I have not been asked this question yet. What do y'all think?

[airborned]

I have PTSD and TBI. I have not had an issue yet. I will be honest though i never talk about guns when i have to go to the VA. they ask every time . I am afraid they will put you on the list if they deem your not mentally stable to have firearms. IM not sure what constitutes unstable in their eyes though.

[cb1000rider]

Without notifying the people affected by the decision, the VA turned over the names of 90,000 veterans who "because of injury or disease lack the mental capacity to contract or manage their own affairs." Under the guise of “mental defectiveness,” therefore, many veterans who served their country honorably have lost their Second Amendment rights for life because a doctor or a bureaucrat in the VA appointed someone to look over their finances.

Thanks to routine data dumps, the number of veterans who have lost their gun rights due to common maladies like Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) has increased to an estimated 150,000. PTSD, incidentally, affects as many as one-third of all combat troops.

These veterans were not convicted of a crime, were not found to be a danger to anyone, and they were not afforded any meaningful due process of law. They were added to NICS simply on the basis of the opinion of a government psychiatrist.

[airborned]

Without notifying the people affected by the decision, the VA turned over the names of 90,000 veterans who "because of injury or disease lack the mental capacity to contract or manage their own affairs." Under the guise of “mental defectiveness,” therefore, many veterans who served their country honorably have lost their Second Amendment rights for life because a doctor or a bureaucrat in the VA appointed someone to look over their finances.

Thanks to routine data dumps, the number of veterans who have lost their gun rights due to common maladies like Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) has increased to an estimated 150,000. PTSD, incidentally, affects as many as one-third of all combat troops.

These veterans were not convicted of a crime, were not found to be a danger to anyone, and they were not afforded any meaningful due process of law. They were added to NICS simply on the basis of the opinion of a government psychiatrist.

This is why i do not discuss firearms with the va. Shooting is a huge way i destress. I hope im not on that list.

[JSThane]

It should read:

Thanks to routine data dumps, the number of veterans who have had their basic human and Constitutionally-codifed rights violated under the umbrella excuse of common maladies like Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) has increased to an estimated 150,000.

[Mike S]

Should not be an issue provided they meet the requirements of 411.172(a)(7) & (d), (e), (f).. They should answer all questions honestly on the application, & may be asked to provide supporting documentation (ie, a letter from their psych that they are not incapable of exercising sound judgement with respect to the proper use and storage of a handgun).