Atlanta: The records of thousands of people who were involuntarily committed for mental health treatment in Georgia have been removed from the national database that gun dealers use to run background checks of buyers. Such people are not permitted under federal and state law to buy firearms. And this year, the state uploaded more than 2000 new records of mentally ill Georgians to the database - people committed for inpatient treatment; found incompetent to handle their own affairs; or found guilty of a crime but mentally ill. But the state also took down almost 500 other records in 2015, making it possible for scores of mentally ill people to acquire guns legally anywhere in the country....
↧