6th Circuit Restores RKBA to former mental institution patient.

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In the first legal ruling of its type, a federal appeals court in Cincinnati on Thursday deemed unconstitutional a federal law that kept a Michigan man who was briefly committed to a mental institution decades ago from owning a gun.

A three-judge panel of the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously ruled that the federal ban on gun ownership for anyone who has been “adjudicated as a mental defective or who has been committed to a mental institution” violated the Second Amendment rights of Clifford Charles Tyler, a 73-year-old Hillsdale County man....

http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-appeals-court-expands-gun-rights-1418939537?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsThird

[csaaphill]

Well good, I'm glad. The should not have a lifetime prohobition set against him for something that was decades ago, and very short lived.  Good one here wish they'd rule like that more often rather than against us most the time.