US House approves bill making it easier for 'mentally incompetent' veterans to purchase guns

Jurist

The US House of Representatives [official website] approved [materials] a bill [text] on Thursday making it easier for certain veterans to obtain firearms. The bill adds a requirement that declaring a veteran mentally defective for purposes of restricting their ability to purchase or own a firearm must be done with an "order or finding of a judge, magistrate, or other judicial authority of competent jurisdiction that such person is a danger to himself or herself or others." 18 USC § 922 [text] makes it illegal to sell a firearm to an individual who has been adjudicated as a mental defective...