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I just sent GOA this email: restoring gun rights
Dear Fellow American Gun Owners:
Under federal law, American citizens may have their gun rights taken away forever for "having been committed to a mental facility".
Is this just and moral in our society? Remember, it is NOT a crime even to be mentally ill or committed!!! I believe legal processes should be restored at the federal level to allow those who have a mental illness history to take lawful steps to get their gun rights restored by proving they are NOT a "danger to themselves or others" as by certification of a psychiatrist. In my opinion, any law-abiding American sane enough to be free in the street in our society is sane enough to have firearms.
Since 1992, the ATF will no longer accept applications for those with mental history to get their gun rights restored. The ATF claims this is because of 'lack of funding" for such purposes as follows:
here is text from this webpage at this link below:
"How can a person apply for relief from Federal firearms disabilities?
Under the provisions of the Gun Control Act of 1968 (GCA), convicted felons and certain other persons are prohibited from possessing or receiving firearms. The GCA provides the Attorney General with the authority to grant relief from this disability where the Attorney General determines that the person is not likely to act in a manner dangerous to the public safety and granting relief would not be contrary to the public interest. The Attorney General delegated this authority to ATF.
Since October 1992, however, ATF’s annual appropriation has prohibited the expending of any funds to investigate or act upon applications for relief from Federal firearms disabilities submitted by individuals. As long as this provision is included in current ATF appropriations, the Bureau cannot act upon applications for relief from Federal firearms disabilities submitted by individuals. (But they seem to have plenty of taxpayer money to do this relief for rich corporations and raid well-intentioned mom-and-pop gun dealers over some BS petty thing as a T not being crossed on a FFL form.)
[18 U.S.C. 922(g), 922(n) and 925(c)]"
Why should a law-abiding American citizen have his or her gun rights stripped for life for having been in a mental facility even after the mental illness has been successfully averted?
I call for American Gun Owners to take political action now to stop such travesty on Second Amendment rights.
Why should a person who was sick and guilty of no crime be denied for life the means to self-preservation? Are those with mental illness history deserving to die or suffer serious bodily harm at the hands of ruthless thugs while unarmed?
Why does the ATF have to "investigate" anything?
What is wrong with simply reviewing a simple letter signed by a licensed psychiatrist to certify a person sane enough to own guns?
Under federal law, American citizens may have their gun rights taken away forever for "having been committed to a mental facility".
Is this just and moral in our society? Remember, it is NOT a crime even to be mentally ill or committed!!! I believe legal processes should be restored at the federal level to allow those who have a mental illness history to take lawful steps to get their gun rights restored by proving they are NOT a "danger to themselves or others" as by certification of a psychiatrist. In my opinion, any law-abiding American sane enough to be free in the street in our society is sane enough to have firearms.
Since 1992, the ATF will no longer accept applications for those with mental history to get their gun rights restored. The ATF claims this is because of 'lack of funding" for such purposes as follows:
here is text from this webpage at this link below:
"How can a person apply for relief from Federal firearms disabilities?
Under the provisions of the Gun Control Act of 1968 (GCA), convicted felons and certain other persons are prohibited from possessing or receiving firearms. The GCA provides the Attorney General with the authority to grant relief from this disability where the Attorney General determines that the person is not likely to act in a manner dangerous to the public safety and granting relief would not be contrary to the public interest. The Attorney General delegated this authority to ATF.
Since October 1992, however, ATF’s annual appropriation has prohibited the expending of any funds to investigate or act upon applications for relief from Federal firearms disabilities submitted by individuals. As long as this provision is included in current ATF appropriations, the Bureau cannot act upon applications for relief from Federal firearms disabilities submitted by individuals. (But they seem to have plenty of taxpayer money to do this relief for rich corporations and raid well-intentioned mom-and-pop gun dealers over some BS petty thing as a T not being crossed on a FFL form.)
[18 U.S.C. 922(g), 922(n) and 925(c)]"
Why should a law-abiding American citizen have his or her gun rights stripped for life for having been in a mental facility even after the mental illness has been successfully averted?
I call for American Gun Owners to take political action now to stop such travesty on Second Amendment rights.
Why should a person who was sick and guilty of no crime be denied for life the means to self-preservation? Are those with mental illness history deserving to die or suffer serious bodily harm at the hands of ruthless thugs while unarmed?
Why does the ATF have to "investigate" anything?
What is wrong with simply reviewing a simple letter signed by a licensed psychiatrist to certify a person sane enough to own guns?
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