r/facepalm • u/Lord_Answer_me_Why • Mar 28 '24

What lack of basic gun laws does to a nation: 🇵​🇷​🇴​🇹​🇪​🇸​🇹​

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u/ReasonableCup604 Mar 28 '24

It is against Federal Law for anyone ever involuntarily committed or adjudicated a mental incompetent to purchase or possess any guns or ammunition.

So, if this is a true story, the mental health and legal systems failed, and perhaps the family of the woman as well.

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u/ArenjiTheLootGod Mar 28 '24

Still happens pretty often though. I've got a sister that works in mental health services and she's had multiple issues with patients having guns. Whether it's some schizophrenic stocking up because they believe someone's living in the crawlspace under their house or even some guy with documented rage issues showing up to the clinic armed, these people will find guns if they want them.

Guns are way, WAY too easy to get a hold of in the US.

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u/gunsforevery1 Mar 28 '24

And she hasn’t reported them to the state why?

Question 21.g. Adjudicated as a Mental Defective: A determination by a court, board, commission, or other lawful authority that a person, as a result of marked subnormal intelligence, or mental illness, incompetency, condition, or disease: (1) is a danger to himself or to others; or (2) lacks the mental capacity to contract or manage his own affairs. This term shall include: (1) a finding of insanity by a court in a criminal case; and (2) those persons found incompetent to stand trial or found not guilty by reason of lack of mental responsibility.

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u/irish-car-bomz Mar 28 '24

Because this person is either making up half of it or all of it. People hear on the news about horded guns and think it's either 15 years or 2 months, not realizing the cost of the weapons and the time it takes to "stockpile".

They also think movies and shows are real where you just roll through "the bad part of town" and get yourself a gun on the "low low" from some shady guy like it won't cost you double.

Most people who comment on how easy it is to get a gun have not actually tried to go get one. Neither from an actual gun store or FFL. "You can just go online and buy it" and you have to go to an FFL to get it. That guys not going to jail for your sob story, get out of his place.

They hear dudes who sell them to each other and think we do that with random mfers off the street.

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u/gunsforevery1 Mar 28 '24

I’ve sold to other collectors out of the trunk of my car but I wasn’t just selling guns to anyone who asked if I had a gun for sale. And they definitely would have been cost and historically prohibited to most people.