The NRA is excited now that they have won in the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals which unanimously ruled that the federal ban on gun ownership for anyone who has been “adjudicated as a mental defective or who has been committed to a mental institution” violates the Second Amendment.
Yes, you read that right. Baring guns from people who have been deemed by the court to have mental problems, who have been forcibly committed due to mental health reasons, is a violation of their second amendment rights.
My guess is the NRA is excited because now they can expand that to all those innocent Felons who can't have guns. Because you want people who are mentally disturbed to have access to firearms, That disturbed shooter in Sandy Hook - according to the NRA and the 6th Circuit Court - had his rights violated when he was prevented from buying guns at a gun store, resulting in his need to murder his mother to get them. By gosh, if he could have bought his weapons at a store his mother might still be alive today!
More after the squiggle
Of course the nuisance is in the details, in this case, the person who sued had been forced into a treatment center for severe depression by court order. 28 years later he sues because he has not been allowed to own a gun because of that month long confinement. Some states have a process that lets people apply to the courts to have their rights restored (normally for voting by felons). The state this guy lives in does not.
That aside, there is still the question: why would it be OK to allow someone with mental problems to own a gun? Or a convicted felon? They have shown that they are not safe to have a gun, why would waiting six months or a few years change that? This guy managed to live 28 years with out a gun, why does a 73 year old need it now? (other than to stand in for the NRA in the suit.)
What is next? A person with severe mental problems which are controlled by medication claiming that they are fine now and should be allowed to own a gun? As long as they take their medication they are ok, but what happens when they stop taking it and the voices or delusions start telling them to kill the spiders attached to the heads of people?
One would think that gun owners would want to see the criminal and mentally ill prevented from having guns. If guns were only in the hands of gun owners who only used them for legal reasons (and most do honestly), there would be no calls for "gun bans".