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Old 07-17-2018, 5:28 PM
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Mental illness has a stigma that no other illness has. Yet easily 99% of people with this are not a danger to others. Mental illness is misunderstood, because it makes most people uneasy to discuss and deal with. I served as a volunteer for 4 years at a local hospital where I assisted with groups of such people on a regular basis. For the most part they look and act just like the rest of us, especially when they regularly take their meds and keep up with their grooming, shaving, etc. It was not in the least like the Cuckoos Nest movie of long ago. Not even once did I feel in danger of physical attack.
Awesome, we agree. Those 99% will never have to worry about losing their firearms. It's the 0.01% that make such viable threats for violence that not only are they taken to the emergency room, but that ER doc can't clear them and refers them to psych, and psych can't clear them and involuntarily admits them to a psychiatric hospitalization. Not for observation, but for stabilization. That takes days to weeks, depending on your locale. This doesn't happen to the person cutting themselves after a break-up or the guy who loses his ***** when his football team blows it and gets in a bar fight.

If we want to talk about a process for folks to try to get their firearm rights restored, I'm all for talking about it. I'm also all for restoring different rights lost by those who have been incarcerated for felonies.

But I'm not willing to throw the baby out with the bathwater. I'll restore those rights given the right process (which no one wants to talk about because they'd rather rail about how the guy fresh from the psych ward for violence should be handed his firearms in a paper bag with his shoelaces and belt), but not get rid of the necessary laws for public safety.

If you haven't met people whose mental illness makes them permanently unsafe to own or handle firearms, you haven't worked long enough with the mentally ill. It's only 0.01%, but they are out there and you do not want them armed.
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Old 07-17-2018, 5:43 PM
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But I'm not willing to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
The argument can be made that you're just misidentifying the baby.

Tell us, how accurate is this hallowed psych hold/prohibition process you describe?

IOTW, how many times out of 100 does it capture an "innocent" person?
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You lose them when you get decompensated to the point of violence and are at such risk that you are not only placed on a hold and brought to the ER but are then placed in a psychiatric hospital.

That’s a very high bar of mental illness and it’s only applicable to the mentally ill who are violent (to themselves or others), not those admitted because they can’t care for themselves. ....
You can be 5150'd in California for the latter ... and lose your gun rights.

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You can be 5150'd in California for the latter ... and lose your gun rights.

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A person committed under the "Gravely Disabled" clause of WIC 5150 does not lose their firearms rights.
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A person committed under the "Gravely Disabled" clause of WIC 5150 does not lose their firearms rights.
Does that require a petition or is it automatic? I was under the impression that the 72 hr involuntary hold was sufficient but perhaps I am mistaken.

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Old 07-17-2018, 9:19 PM
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Does that require a petition or is it automatic? I was under the impression that the 72 hr involuntary hold was sufficient but perhaps I am mistaken.

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Hinnerk,

The firearms prohibitions resulting from a WIC 5150 are laid out in WIC 8103(f)(1). Here is the exact text (with bold font for emphasis):

"No person who has been (A) taken into custody as provided in Section 5150 because that person is a danger to himself, herself, or to others, (B) assessed within the meaning of Section 5151, and (C) admitted to a designated facility within the meaning of Sections 5151 and 5152 because that person is a danger to himself, herself, or others, shall own, possess, control, receive, or purchase, or attempt to own, possess, control, receive, or purchase any firearm for a period of five years after the person is released from the facility. A person described in the preceding sentence, however, may own, possess, control, receive, or purchase, or attempt to own, possess, control, receive, or purchase any firearm if the superior court has, pursuant to paragraph (5), found that the people of the State of California have not met their burden pursuant to paragraph (6)."

Please note that there are three clauses contained in WIC 5150: 1) Danger to self, 2) Danger to others, and 3) Gravely Disabled. Section 8103 only creates a five year prohibition on folks committed under the Danger to self or others clauses. There is no prohibition imposed on folks committed under the Gravely Disabled clause.
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Hinnerk,

The firearms prohibitions resulting from a WIC 5150 are laid out in WIC 8103(f)(1). Here is the exact text (with bold font for emphasis):

"No person who has been (A) taken into custody as provided in Section 5150 because that person is a danger to himself, herself, or to others, (B) assessed within the meaning of Section 5151, and (C) admitted to a designated facility within the meaning of Sections 5151 and 5152 because that person is a danger to himself, herself, or others, shall own, possess, control, receive, or purchase, or attempt to own, possess, control, receive, or purchase any firearm for a period of five years after the person is released from the facility. A person described in the preceding sentence, however, may own, possess, control, receive, or purchase, or attempt to own, possess, control, receive, or purchase any firearm if the superior court has, pursuant to paragraph (5), found that the people of the State of California have not met their burden pursuant to paragraph (6)."

Please note that there are three clauses contained in WIC 5150: 1) Danger to self, 2) Danger to others, and 3) Gravely Disabled. Section 8103 only creates a five year prohibition on folks committed under the Danger to self or others clauses. There is no prohibition imposed on folks committed under the Gravely Disabled clause.
I stand corrected. Thank you for that clarification.

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I'll just leave this here: http://jpfo.org/filegen-a-m/GCA_68.htm
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