Gun Control & RKBA

SecularMotion

(7,981 posts) Tue Mar 12, 2013, 03:33 PM Mar 2013

Police must report psych patients to gun bureau [View all]

On the day of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn. on Dec. 14, 2012, Suffolk County Legislator Kara Hahn (D-Setauket) had been visiting her daughter's kindergarten class, celebrating Hope's birthday.

Having just read to a group of adorable and enthusiastic 5- and 6-year-olds, Hahn recalled, "When I left and heard about the tragedy, obviously being an elected official, I thought about what can I do."

What she did was meet with the Legislature's counsel and the head of the county Pistol Licensing Bureau. Together they wrote a bill, which the Legislature passed unanimously on Tuesday, requiring police officers in Suffolk to notify the Pistol Licensing Bureau of all patients taken involuntarily to a hospital emergency room for psychiatric reasons. The patients will be reported to the bureau whether they are brought to Stony Brook University Hospital's Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program, which is usually the case, said Hahn, or to other area hospitals in the county.

If there is a match between the patient's name or home address and the gun registry, she said, the Pistol Licensing Bureau could then investigate whether the gun license should be revoked or suspended. Since shotguns and rifles are not registered in the county, only pistols or handguns are covered by the law.

http://www.northshoreoflongisland.com/Articles-News-i-2013-03-07-95446.112114-sub-Police-must-report-psych-patients-to-gun-bureau.html

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Police must report psych patients to gun bureau [View all] SecularMotion Mar 2013 OP

If the patients were ruled by a judge gejohnston Mar 2013 #1

By far the most common reason for involuntary psychiatric detentions Jackpine Radical Mar 2013 #2

agreed. how do you think, if any, a law should be written and carried out to separate Tuesday Afternoon Mar 2013 #3

As it happens, I'm pretty familiar with the scientific literature Jackpine Radical Mar 2013 #4

sounds like the numbers are advocating that there is no need for laws .. Tuesday Afternoon Mar 2013 #5

I'm just presenting the statistical realities. Jackpine Radical Mar 2013 #6

Actually Australia isn't that great of an example gejohnston Mar 2013 #8

Our murder rates are going down too. Jackpine Radical Mar 2013 #10

yes they are gejohnston Mar 2013 #11

I guess you have never heard of revolver speedloaders? MicaelS Mar 2013 #17

but, you just said in post #4 Tuesday Afternoon Mar 2013 #7

It IS low. Jackpine Radical Mar 2013 #9

violent comparatively speaking ... not so much ...according to this wiki chart "By subregion" Tuesday Afternoon Mar 2013 #12

Thanks for the link. Eleanors38 Mar 2013 #14

yw Tuesday Afternoon Mar 2013 #15

When someone is adjudicated mentally deficient, to the point... Eleanors38 Mar 2013 #13

this is not easy to do ... in my understanding ... at this point the person can not be able to write Tuesday Afternoon Mar 2013 #16

It may be of benefit to compile the adjudication findings in all states Eleanors38 Mar 2013 #18

ow. Tuesday Afternoon Mar 2013 #19

I meant the findings of everyone who was denied thru NICS for mental incapacity... Eleanors38 Mar 2013 #20

I don't even know how to begin searching and compiling that data. do you? Tuesday Afternoon Mar 2013 #21

Not in the slightest. If the states had accessible records, and an entity could... Eleanors38 Mar 2013 #22

This law shall be extended to the whole country Aaronquah Mar 2013 #23