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Originally Posted by dbussone
Someone with mental illness cannot legally purchase a gun. There is a specific question on the purchase application.
A check is made to determine if that individual has been in a mental health facility in that specific state. However states do not share that information or provide it to a central data base where it could be checked.
An individual could also falsely respond to that question.
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I believe that the various State and Federal statutes say that someone adjudicated to be mentally ill not that someone has had a mental illness cannot purchase a firearm and this does not cover most gun shows as far as I know. Again, people should look at the National Alliance on Mental Illness before posting generalities.
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