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The legislation referred to is HR 2640, the NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007, which passed the House on June 13th. The relevant section is 102(b)(1)(C)(iv), which states:
"A record that identifies a person who has been adjudicated mentally defective or committed to a mental institution (as determined in regulations implementing section 922(g)(4) of title 18, United States Code, as in effect on the date of the enactment of this Act) and whose record is not protected from disclosure to the Attorney General under any provision of State or Federal law."
Maybe I am missing something, but I do not see the specific provisions regarding PTSD or broader definition of "adjudication" that Larry Pratt referred to in his widely-forwarded article. I also do not see anywhere in the text provision for wholesale dumping of veteran's medical records into the NICS database, as Pratt claims.
Somebody please correct me if I missed something in my quick reading of the bill, but I think Pratt's tinfoil hat is a bit too tight.
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