[blueplum]

1. why aren’t transsexuals automatically put on the no-buy list. and
2. why didn’t the state of Maryland put him on the no-buy list when he was certified as mentally ill in 2016? Was the state paying him disability? If so, why wasn’t no-buy part of the paperwork?

[Morgana]

2. why didn’t the state of Maryland put him on the no-buy list when he was certified as mentally ill in 2016? Was the state paying him disability? If so, why wasn’t no-buy part of the paperwork?

Being mentally ill does not disqualify you, having been in a Nervous Hospital does. Big difference.

[21twelve]

“...when he was certified as mentally ill in 2016?”

I believe that it is only a court-ordered determination of mental illness prevents one from buying a firearm. Going to your doctor because you are depressed doesn’t count against you buying a gun.

[ridesthemiles]

1. why aren’t transsexuals automatically put on the no-buy list. and
2. why didn’t the state of Maryland put him on the no-buy list when he was certified as mentally ill in 2016? Was the state paying him disability? If so, why wasn’t no-buy part of the paperwork?”””

3. Is the family responsible for not calling authorities & telling them this ‘person’ was losing it?

[Drew68]

2. why didn’t the state of Maryland put him on the no-buy list when he was certified as mentally ill in 2016? Was the state paying him disability? If so, why wasn’t no-buy part of the paperwork?

HIPAA.

Privacy laws ensure that the only mental health records that find their way to the NICS background check database are those that were adjudicated in a criminal court.