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J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry Law · Jan 2009
Case ReportsGun laws and the involuntarily committed: a California road map.
- Sohrab Zahedi, Robert Burchuk, David C Stone, and Alex Kopelowicz.
- Department of Forensic Psychiatry, Olive View-UCLA Medical Center, 14445 Olive View Drive, Sylmar, CA 91342, USA. sobzi@mac.com
- J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry Law. 2009 Jan 1; 37 (4): 545-8.
AbstractThe 2007 incident at Virginia Tech brought the question of gun ownership by the mentally ill to the forefront of public attention. Moreover, it underscored the potentially devastating consequences of the imperfect connection between federal and state laws that apply to the right of gun ownership by a psychiatric patient. The laws are complex, and, as demonstrated in this article, conflicting. We present a case report of an involuntarily committed patient in the state of California, and discuss details of state and federal laws that applied to him.
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