-----Original Message----- >From: "Volokh, Eugene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Apr 30, 2007 2:43 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Regulations describing how information -- including mental illness >adjudication information -- is to be gathered for NICS > > Sorry if this has already been discussed on the list, but could >someone point me, please, to the specific regulations or other documents >describing how information -- including mental illness adjudication >information -- is to be gathered for NICS? As you might gather, I'm >trying to figure out precisely how information about adjudications of >mental illness, such as the 2005 adjudication as to the Virginia Tech >murderer, are supposed to get into the system. Thanks,
It may not be covered by reg., may be voluntary. As in "here's a big grant for you to do this ... want the money or not?" There may be a federal register publication (agencies are supposed to do one annually, listing all their databases) that discusses it briefly. I was present at a Federal Advisory Conference meeting back around the mid 90s, for an advisory group working at implementing the background check. They were discussing getting the VA records of psychiatric care into the system, thinking that state records would be more difficult. (In AZ, for instance, committment hearings are sealed; all you can verify is that a hearing of some type was held for a person with that name). I'd assume a way was found around it since I've had a person come to me who flunked the instant check based on a committment years ago. _______________________________________________ To post, send message to [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/firearmsregprof Please note that messages sent to this large list cannot be viewed as private. Anyone can subscribe to the list and read messages that are posted; people can read the Web archives; and list members can (rightly or wrongly) forward the messages to others.
