Ex-military to be denied gun ownership

[Mauser 98K]

2nd Amendment advocates warn it poses clear constitutional threat

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Posted: September 27, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/ar...TICLE_ID=57847


By Bob Unruh
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com


The Gun Owners of America is launching an urgent campaign encouraging citizens to call their U.S. senators and ask them to oppose a bill that could be described as "disarmament by diagnosis."

The legislation would allow a person's right to own a gun in the U.S. to be permanently removed under a wide range of circumstances.

"You'd think that when rabid, anti-gun legislators like Sen. Charles Schumer and Rep. Carolyn McCarthy join together to pass anti-gun legislation, it would raise a few red flags," the alert says. "But these two New York Democrats are currently planning to roll over gun owners with H.R. 2640 – legislation which would bar you from owning guns if: You are a battle-scarred veteran suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder; or as a kid, you were diagnosed with ADHD."

Gun Owners Executive Director Larry Pratt told WND that those are just two of the circumstances that legitimately could be used under the pending proposal to permanently remove an individual's right to own a weapon in the U.S.

Someone in counseling during a bitter divorce, a child who at one point gets into a scrape on a school yard and is put on Ritalin, or even someone given "counseling" for issues such as depression during recovery from an accident or work-related injury are some other situations that could trigger such "disarmament by diagnosis," he said.

The plan, described in Congress as an expansion of the Brady Gun Bill that requires background checks for potential firearms purchasers, would require people who have such a diagnosis in their health record to be permanently banned from owning a gun.


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me my self have been diagnosed with ADHD, and ill be damed if im gona let them take my right to have guns, and no1 else should stand for it ither, im calling my senator and voicing my oposition and i urge any1 else who wants to keep their right to keep and bear arms to do the same.