Would this be a check form of the box -- I am qualified to purchase a gun because of:
__mental illness
__restraining order?
NYC has had way more than its share of people with known psycho record that come out after the fact shoving people in front of subway trains, hacking ferry passengers to death with toy swords, firebombs aboard subway trains, etc. In fact, NYC's "crazy crime" problem seems to be that it is a magnet for psychos and the homeless - rather than either guns or toy swords or glass jars full of gasoline - and has a deserved reputation for easy plea bargains that keep many violent criminals who'd be jailed anywhere else on its streets.
Scandals of antigun politicians - from Kalifornia to Manhattan!
Is this suppose to be a bad thing?
They take a single incident that makes their case, then generalize on it, claiming all former mental patients are a threat to civilization as we know it.
And people who have had a restraining order against them. Well, that could be something like half of all divorced men if you think about it. And a fair percentage of women.
Pretty soon, expect that having bad credit will be cause for denying a person his right to own a firearm.
Actually upChuck wants to restrict gun sales so that only the police and the military will be armed, just the way the first Nazis did.