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rotor wrote:Jaguar, I agree with you about asking law abiding citizens to do something that criminals don't do but using the same logic, you followed the law to conceal carry and the crooks do it without following the law. If I were selling a gun to someone I would have no hesitation to sell it to a CHL permit holder but I would not want to sell it to the guy with needle marks running up and down his arm. It is a minimal imposition to make sure the gun is going to someone that is also a law abidding citizen. Look how much hastle we go through to conceal carry. Your gun right now could technically be bought by any nut that wants to come to your house and buy it and you have no way of knowing if he/she is legal enough to own a gun. I know that it is not our job to be the police but I just don't want to sell my gun to a felon or other criminal or crazy. There is no way for me to quickly check that person out though. I would like to be able to check them out before giving them my address as I am not a very trusting person.

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rotor wrote:Now, the medical issue. The Feds have passed a law called HiPAA which makes it a felony for a medical person to give out any info about you except for certain limited issues. Texas passed an even more stringent law which went into effect in Sep 2012 which is worse than the Fed law. So, a medical professional seeing a crazy person just doesn't know what the heck to do without getting into trouble. There was a time when the nuts could be put away.. now they are coddled and allowed to be out in society. The crazy in Colorado that went into the movie and shot everyone had been seeing a therapist and the therapist had reported him to the campus police. He had threatened to kill people. What was done?? Don't look at the doctor as being for gun control. Most that I know are NRA members and are at the range all the time. But the laws have gotten so strict that they are afraid to open their mouths and say anything when they see someone that very well may be a threat to society. They make a report and they get prosecuted by the Feds and now even worse by Texas with their more stringent law. A true nightmare for the medical profession. Very good article today in The Wall Street Journal about how the Governor of Colorado is trying to address the mental health issue and make laws that will get the nuts off the street. That's where the action needs to be, not the honest gun owner.

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TexasCajun wrote:Great! Now I'm thinking like a big governmenter....

Ark03 wrote:

The medical stuff, I have no experience with. Perhaps someone else can enlighten us.

Currently, if someone is treated for mental illness, this rarely makes it to the NICS database, partly because of HIPAA restrictions (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act which protects medical data from unnecessary sharing). I think he'd like some of those medical restrictions torn down where it is easier to stop people with a history of mental illness from getting past a NICS-like process (case in point: the recent Colorado shooter had seen several mental health professionals recently, but got through NICS just fine).

"(c) PROTECTION OF SECOND AMENDMENT GUN RIGHTS.—[As added by section 10101(e)(2)]
‘‘(1) WELLNESS AND PREVENTION PROGRAMS.—A wellness and health promotion activity implemented under subsection (a)(1)(D) may not require the disclosure or collection of any information relating to—
‘‘(A) the presence or storage of a lawfully-possessed firearm or ammunition in the residence or on the property of an individual; or
‘‘(B) the lawful use, possession, or storage of a firearm or ammunition by an individual.