Here's an idea... "Shall not be infringed". If a person is criminal enough, or mentally deranged enough, we'll either lock them up longer or shoot them in self defense.
Nothing else passes the Constitutional "smell test". Or does this legislation magically impart new "mental health" adjudication powers to the list in Art 1 Sect 8?
So what? If one is certified and adjudicated a lunatic, they shouldn't be allowed to have pointy objects. That includes guns.
"Getting relief from disability would end up in the same budgetary dust bin they used to shut down the appeals process for "reformed" felons."
Apparently you skipped over the part where it says the relief must be acted upon, regardless of any lack of appropriated funds. They used the word must, not may, might, or the phrase whenever we get around to it.
"Here's an idea... "Shall not be infringed"."
The people the right is held by are presumed to be rational agents. The names of those folks don't appear on the list, so their rights are not infringed.
"If a person is criminal enough, or mentally deranged enough, we'll either lock them up longer or shoot them in self defense."
Most folks aren't gunslingers. They don't want nutcases to have access to the legitimate firearms market.
"Nothing else passes the Constitutional "smell test"."
THere's nothing unocnstitutionla about this law.
"Or does this legislation magically impart new "mental health" adjudication powers to the list in Art 1 Sect 8?"
The Constitution gives Congress the right to regulate interstate commerce. That means they can exclude mental cases from the market altogether.
Well no, the amended law provides you can at least go to court after a *a full year* of inaction on your application. Not good, but better than the preexisting situation. Whatever happened to "Justice delayed is justice denied"?