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Last Updated on Tuesday, 17 June 2008 11:09 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 17 June 2008 11:09
From the Stanly News and Press:
Firearms may be banned from the hands of “severely mentally ill” individuals if legislation proposed Thursday by Attorney General Roy Cooper is approved.
Cooper presented the bill, Senate Bill 2081, Thursday morning to N.C. Senate Judiciary I committee members.
It directs clerks of court to enter information from involuntary commitments into a national database designed to prevent the severely mentally ill from acquiring guns.
The proposal stems from Cooper’s campus safety task force, which recommended the action following the fatal shootings on the campus of Virginia Tech.
The process is proposed basically as a “red flag” system to be monitored through the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS).
The Clerk of Superior Court in counties where individuals are found by the court to require involuntary commitment for inpatient or outpatient mental health treatment would submit a corresponding report to NICS.