Michigan Man Denied Gun Wins Key Appeal in Federal Court

[Purveyor]

By ED WHITE, ASSOCIATED PRESS DETROIT — Sep 17, 2016, 6:34 PM ET

A Michigan man who can't buy a gun because he was briefly treated for mental health problems in the 1980s has won a key decision from a federal appeals court, which says the burden is on the government to justify a lifetime ban against him.

The Second Amendment case was significant enough for 16 judges on the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to participate. Cases usually are heard only by three-judge panels.

Clifford Tyler, 74, of Hillsdale said his constitutional right to bear arms is violated by a federal law that prohibits gun ownership if someone has been admitted to a mental hospital.

In 1985, Tyler's wife ran away with another man, depleted his finances and filed for divorce. He was deeply upset, and his daughters feared he was a danger to himself.

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[JonathanRackham]

1. So you can cure cancer but never recover from mental illness?

[Duckhunter935]

2. That kind of crap keeps

People from even thinking if getting mental health care. A lifetime stigma

[JonathanRackham]

3. Local top sheriff pointed out many LEOs are treated with prescriptions for mental health.

Yet they are not required to leave the job, not even temporary. He himself called hipocracy on the system.