The Police are not always the best at communicating to the public.
Did he mean “higher level” as in training? Not altitude.
What does the 4473 say about prescription meds, or being under a doctors care for mental illness and purchase of firearms?
I think you can be on any number of prescribed drugs (with subscription) and nutty as a fruitcake in a doctor’s opinion, but unless you’ve been adjudicated mentally unfit, it doesn’t prohibit purchase from an FFL dealer.
Nothing about prescription meds.
As far as mental health...
“Have you ever been adjudicated mentally defective” or “committed to a mental institution”. That wording may have been updated.
Basically any involuntary mental commitment excludes you from buying a firearm. If you do it voluntarily it doesn’t.
I remember 1989 when California proposed a bad AW ban bill. So much opposition was raised against it the bill was shelved.
I felt something bad was going to happen in California. I was right!
The state released Pat Purdy from a mental institution for the 7th time, allowed him to buy guns in violation of state and Federal laws, passing the waiting period, filling out a form 4473 in two states.
He then went and shot up the Stockton School yard killing several students and himself.
The shelved bill was pulled out and passed so fast before opposition could be mounted against it.