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Community => Advocacy, Agencies, Access => Topic started by: Bean Counter on December 19, 2014, 11:00:20 PM

Title: 6th Circuit Restores RKBA to former mental institution patient.
Post by: Bean Counter on December 19, 2014, 11:00:20 PM: 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 (http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-appeals-court-expands-gun-rights-1418939537?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsThird)
Title: Re: 6th Circuit Restores RKBA to former mental institution patient.
Post by: csaaphill on December 19, 2014, 11:21:39 PM: 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. :tup: Good one here wish they'd rule like that more often rather than against us most the time.