[highlander_UW]

A reasonable additional regulation would be to include some sort of check of mental health records. Probably the easiest would be for a flag to be sent to the firearms registry service (I forget the acronym for authority gun shops have to contact before selling a firearm)...but if there were a flag from the nut-house this guy had been identified as dangerous to others he wouldn’t have been able to buy the pistols from a dealership. Of course he could have just bought them from illegal aliens who come in without declaring any items they are bringing in with them (and undoubtedly guns are a part of that).

[supercat]

A reasonable additional regulation would be to include some sort of check of mental health records.

A judge did not find that the murderer in this case posed sufficient danger to himself and others to justify involuntary commitment. The judge's finding turned out to be incorrect, but I find myself deeply troubled by pro-Second-Amendment people who are willing to set the 'mental health' bar any lower. There are enough people who view a desire to own firearms as being a mental disease in and of itself that allowing the state broad discretion to deny people's Second-Amendment rights without having to commit them would be very dangerous.