Except that the point of my article was that a doctor doesn’t have the power to decide if you are mentally incompetent. The entire process of involuntary commitment has become extremely hard since the 1970s. As much as I disapprove of what the ACLU has done to commitment law, the net effect is that it takes a due process conformant hearing to lose your right to own a gun now because of supposed mental defect.
"-- at the sole discretion of BATFE and the FBI, this bill would compile the largest mega-list of personal information on Americans in existence -- particularly medical and psychological records.
But information on the mega-list could not be used to battle terrorism and crime… only to bar [prohibit] Americans from owning guns.
And, incidentally, it's the medical records themselves, not just a list of names, that would turned over under section 102 (b) (1) (C) (iv). --"
Why back a bill that acknowledges a nonexistent 'power to prohibit'?
Only if they are basing it on currently defined mental illnesses. There is no due process or adjudication during the defining of new mental illnesses.