[supercat]

So what? If one is certified and adjudicated a lunatic, they shouldn't be allowed to have pointy objects. That includes guns.

If someone is certified and adjudicated a lunatic, they shouldn't have access to a lot of things. Unless you're suggesting that, in the absence of legislation, someone would open up a gun store within an insane asylum, I really don't see what that has to do with people who are not locked up.

[spunkets]

"If someone is certified and adjudicated a lunatic, they shouldn't have access to a lot of things. Unless you're suggesting that, in the absence of legislation, someone would open up a gun store within an insane asylum, I really don't see what that has to do with people who are not locked up."

In the absense of legislation madating Cho's name be on the prohibited persons list, Cho was able to engage in the legitimate firearms market. Cho had been adjudicated a danger to self after being arrested for stalking female strangers. The State of VA decided not to voluntarily forward that info to the NICS dbase, as per fed request. This law says all states must forward that kind of info.