Doctors can report some mentally ill patients to FBI under new gun control rule

Politico ^ | January 4th, 2016 | By David Pittman

[Mariner]

Delivering on its promise to deliver "common sense" gun control, the Obama administration on Monday finalized a rule that enables health care providers to report the names of mentally ill patients to an FBI firearms background check system.

The action was one of a series of steps that President Barack Obama had called for in January 2013 in the wake of the Newtown, Conn., shootings to curb gun violence, but the rule was not published until today.

While the 1993 Brady law prohibits gun ownership by individuals who have been involuntarily committed, found incompetent to stand trial or otherwise deemed by a court to be a danger to themselves or others, federal health care privacy rules prohibited doctors and other providers from sharing information without the consent of their patients.

Under the rule, which takes effect next month, for the first time health providers can disclose the information to the background check system without legal repercussions.

[batterycommander]

My kidney doctor saw all this coming three years ago. He sold his practice, bought an AR, two Sig Sauers and a cabin in the woods in East Texas and is survivor ready for the SHTF. He was the only sane doctor in my stable of five doctors. I am not a well man these days. I miss his solid advise on how to fight Obuttcare.

[familyop]

"Gee, how does this square with HIPAA?"

From the article:

"Current law allows HIPAA exclusions for law enforcement purposes, but it's a broad exclusion."

[Robert A Cook PE]

Ah! But abortion is considered a “right” in the constitution only BECAUSE of some supposed “right to privacy” found somewhere in the constitution .. regarding “health care” and the government!

[headstamp 2]

This cuts out all liberals from gun ownership then.

[knarf]

They always could ... at least since the mid eighties

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Would I still be fined if I merely said, “She look-a like a man?”

[Starstruck]

Narcissistic personality disorder is a mental disorder in which people have an inflated sense of their own importance, a deep need for admiration and a lack of empathy for others. And that is the guy that is issuing EOs

[tumblindice]

“Doc, I been a lot better since I walked out of the nervous hospital.”

[Bon mots]

Report this shrew.

[tet68]

how far in the future when we start to get reeducated?

In the future? I can see you haven’t been paying
attention in class.

[cpdiii]

My Doctor is a 2nd amendate supporter. If I had a doctor that was not, with a stroke of a pen he could deny my right to keep and bear arms. This is Tyranny.

PS
He shoots with me at my range in my backyard. I live in the country with several acres of land. I have some nice weapons but Docs are superb. He cost me several hundred dollars one day. He brought over his FAL and I immediately feel into gun envy. I bought one a few days later.

I hate it when this happens, but just for a little while!

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Mental illness?

How about if they lock up dangerous whackjobs? Those “suicidal” types. Right along with the child molesters.

[KC_Lion]

OH MY GOSH!

I literally just fell out of my chair!

I was hit with a literal epiphany this evening.

I was reading this thread and Then I realized soon they will be treating us like Replicates from Blade Runner!

I kid you not. We will be undergoing Turning Tests to have the government "approve" of our Fitness for owning a weapon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-DkoGvcEBw

My God How did we get here?

[gleeaikin]

So you are a Doctor reporting a nut case???

[Calvin Cooledge]

Among other reasons, this is because of the Virginia Tech shooter who had been to counseling and was so clearly disturbed that it scared his counselor.

But due to privacy laws in Virginia, she could not report him to law enforcement.

[Rebelbase]

*Patient suffers from the mental illness of Christianity.*

[gleeaikin]

Several decades ago the mental hospitals were phased out as a result of more effective medication. However, community mental health clinics were supposed to take up the slack and supervise the medication, but were very underfunded, so now we have large numbers of mentally ill homeless wandering in our cities. Also significant number in our prisons that ought to be in mental hospitals receiving treatment.

[Scrambler Bob]

I think bo will make some requirement for ‘timely’ reporting of loss or theft of a gun.

Better get some boiler-plate boating accident forms printed up, kind of like those Twin-Peaks biker arrest forms.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

It may be doctors today, but how long before it’s “If you see something, say something — about a gun you saw”?

[Scrambler Bob]

Also significant number in our prisons that ought to be in mental hospitals receiving treatment.

= = =

And County Jails, and any other lock-up.

Add in that unless you are in mental hospital due to court order, you can check yourself out at any time.

Learning this on the fly.