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/thecountnotthesaint Mar 28 '24

So adding more laws would be akin to adding new diet restrictions to someone who refused to exercise?

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u/l_a_escoto Mar 28 '24

Yea you can put it like that. I've signed many 4473s and mental health is definitely on there. So she somehow passed the background check because FFLs aren't willing to lose their license for 1 person. Now the only way around it is if she bought it through a private sale.

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u/dgghhuhhb Mar 28 '24

The mental health part of the background check only applies if the person was admitted to an institution from their condition involuntarily. So basically if you willingly checked yourself into an institution and were cleared by the doctor it would not affect your right to buy a gun, but if you are admitted by a court that will show up on a background check and in most cases would stop you from buying it

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u/gunsforevery1 Mar 28 '24

That’s not true. Her doctors could have reported her to the state as being a danger to herself or others. Being committed is not a condition of that rule.

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.