The Ninth Circuit has just found that it is permissible to permanently take away someone's Second Amendment rights if they were involuntarily committed.
The panel affirmed the district court’s dismissal of a42 U.S.C. § 1983 complaint containing an as-applied Second Amendment challenge to 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(4), which prohibits plaintiff from possessing firearms due to his involuntary commitment in 1999 to a mental institution for more than nine months after a Washington state court found plaintiff to be both mentally ill and dangerous
The conclusion does not even make sense.
We emphasize that we reach only Plaintiff’s Second Amendment challenge and that our holding is limited to§ 922(g)(4)’s prohibition on those who have “been committed to a mental institution.” We emphatically do not subscribe to the notion that “once mentally ill, always so.” We accept, as we must and as we have no reason to doubt, that Plaintiff isno longer mentally ill. We decide only that § 922(g)(4)’s application to him withstands Second Amendment scrutiny
okay if the guy is no longer mentally ill then why is he prohibited?
https://www.scribd.com/document/451...inth-Circuit-2a-Involuntary-Mental-Commitment
The panel affirmed the district court’s dismissal of a42 U.S.C. § 1983 complaint containing an as-applied Second Amendment challenge to 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(4), which prohibits plaintiff from possessing firearms due to his involuntary commitment in 1999 to a mental institution for more than nine months after a Washington state court found plaintiff to be both mentally ill and dangerous
The conclusion does not even make sense.
We emphasize that we reach only Plaintiff’s Second Amendment challenge and that our holding is limited to§ 922(g)(4)’s prohibition on those who have “been committed to a mental institution.” We emphatically do not subscribe to the notion that “once mentally ill, always so.” We accept, as we must and as we have no reason to doubt, that Plaintiff isno longer mentally ill. We decide only that § 922(g)(4)’s application to him withstands Second Amendment scrutiny
okay if the guy is no longer mentally ill then why is he prohibited?
https://www.scribd.com/document/451...inth-Circuit-2a-Involuntary-Mental-Commitment