Larry Pratt of G.O.A. is really going overboard on this one, and he is not making a good impression of himself IMO.
The law has been on the books since 1968. There is a program on the books, since the Clinton administration, to remove the firearms bar for persons deemed well after they have been adjudicated mentally defective, and also for vets to clear their records. Needless to say, a certain political party ensured that the program never got funded. N.R.A. says the law will correct this issue and I believe them.
Right now, The History Channel is showing “Gangster Guns,” with an interviewee who puts a very nice take on the old pocket pistol: “You didn’t mess with a man’s lady, you didn’t kick his dog, you didn’t go after his kids, because you didn’t know who had one.”
An armed society is a polite society. :)
The law will only correct the issue if the states go along with it. If New Jersey decides not to accept the grant money, they don’t have to set up a program for rights restoration, and anyone unjustly inserted into the database by the new mandate will have no recourse but to move out of the state to one which does have a program.