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Originally Posted by annistonstar.com

In 1968, a federal law was passed that disqualified people with “serious mental illness” from purchasing guns.

In January, 2004, an Alabama man who had twice been involuntarily committed to mental institutions, shot and killed two police officers with a rifle he had bought the week before. Today, facing the death penalty, the man is pleading “not guilty by reason of mental disease and defect.”

Now why, you may ask, was this man allowed to purchase the weapon?

The answer — because when the store checked in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) his name did not appear.

And why wasn’t his name there? Because at the time, privacy laws in Alabama and many other states prevented the release of such information. (Since then Alabama lawmakers have allowed the sharing of those records with the NICS, making our state one of only 20 to do so.)

Today, legislation is pending in Congress that would require states to update computerized record-keeping and share with the NICS and other states a variety of records that would disqualify people from buying guns — including those records pertaining to mental illness. Instead of another unfunded mandate, the bill would also provide $250 million in grants to cover state costs.

Advocates for the mentally ill and some gun-rights groups oppose the legislation. though it has bipartisan support in Congress and at least one of its sponsors is on the board of the National Rifle Association...

http://www.annistonstar.com/opinion/...-5k30q2856.htm

Somebody needs to smack the advocates for both the mentally ill AND the "gun rights" [sic] groups upside the head - preferably, with each other.