as it turns out you can not legally own a firearm if youve been involuntarily committed to a mental institution
as it turns out you can not legally own a firearm if youve been involuntarily committed to a mental institution
Bullshit, although yeah i get it i guess but there goes my plans to get strapped. I was going to buy a cute lil handgun in 380 but now i get NOTHING
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Involuntarily, like with going through the whole court process and a judge committing you and everything. If you're depressed and cops show up at your door and make you go to the hospital "voluntarily" under threat of being committed, that doesn't count. Even if you stay a while "voluntarily". If you get taken in for a 72 hour "observation" hold (5150) but then the doctors let you free, that doesn't count either. If you didn't have to go to court or at least face a judge, you weren't committed.
I've had a few grippy sock vacations when I was younger but it didn't impact my gun rights.
Mmmm i believe a court order was issued while i was in the ER. I vaguely remember seeing it and verifying that i was considered involuntary while in the institution
In that case you may just have to get a brace of black powder pistols and start buccaneer-moding. You don't choose the pirate's life. The pirate's life chooses you.
Or a crossbow. Get on that Ellie grindset.
From the ER they can put you on a short hold without court approval, and they don't need to start it until you're medically stable.
The kind that disqualifies you is something you'd remember. You're given a chance to testify.
how can i check this?Probably the easiest is asking for the medical records for that period from the hospital. You can usually get them for free if it's a limited request, but you'll probably have to go in person.
The second option is going to the clerk at the courthouse that serves that hospital and have them search for a committal record. They might charge you for a copy of the record, but it's usually cheap.
The hospital being the mental hospital I was at, correct? Or should I be checking with the ER too
Yeah, whatever facility you believe you were committed to
Wait so does that mean it doesn't count if a judge signed off without seeing you? I wish there was an easy way to check because when I was a kid the doctor asked if I would go voluntarily and I said no, so they said ok we got a judge to sign off and I said oh ok I guess I'm going... Not sure what the paperwork was so I don't really know what it counts as.
Probably varies by state, but involuntary commitment is a whole legal process with hearings and judges and a right to testify and all that jazz.
You can look up court records to check. Maybe not in your case cause you were a kid, but if you get involuntarily committed as an adult there will be a court record of that.