Posted on 01/04/2014 4:11:12 AM PST by Sir Napsalot
WASHINGTON — As Capitol Hill was getting ready to march back to work after the holiday break, the Justice Department tweeted a photo of Attorney General Eric Holder’s hands signing new regulations to clarify who should be flagged in the federal background check system for mental health conditions.
That was coupled with a second action over at the Department of Health and Human Services, which aims to remove barriers that prevent some states from reporting mental health conditions to the background check system.
The Justice Department said Holder’s “clarification will help states determine what information may be appropriately shared with the federal background check system for firearms transfers – the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) – in order to keep guns out of the hands of individuals who may be a danger to themselves or others.”
The proposed regulation, which became available for review at the Federal Register on Friday afternoon, would revise the definition of “adjudicated as a mental defective” and “committed to a mental institution” to include “persons who are found incompetent to stand trial or not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect; persons lacking mental responsibility or deemed insane; and persons found guilty but mentally ill, regardless of whether these determinations are made by a state, local, federal or military court” as well as “a person committed to involuntary inpatient or outpatient treatment.”
“We are taking an important, commonsense step to clarify the federal firearms regulations, which will strengthen our ability to keep dangerous weapons out of the wrong hands,” Holder said. ........ (Read more at source)
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“Which do you believe? In the Constitution or the Living Constitution?”
Good one.
My paranoid side expects sluggishly progressing schizophrenia to make a big comeback.
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