Expanding NICS mental disqualifications

[Eleanors38]

72. I get your drift, but there are some real concerns here:

I recently had a discussion with a psychologist who wanted a panel to decide who should own a gun; i.e., you went through HER panel before you applied for a weapon. Not once would she address the question or any concerns about due process.

I am leery of pro forma disqualifications based on prescription of the sometimes witch's brew of psycho-tropics and other drugs, or the "diseases" they attach to. The only way I could see this working is when persons with standing (family members?) complain to legal authority about someone's mental competency, then having a judicial hearing to see if treatment is warranted and disqualification ruled on.

It strikes me as a difficult task if the individual in question is competent not to have acquired a felony record, enough so to disqualify firearm ownership in the first place.