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General Category => Latest News Stories => Topic started by: gryphon on December 31, 2013, 10:35:22 PM

Title: Trooper can't have gun while off duty due to mental health record
Post by: gryphon on December 31, 2013, 10:35:22 PM

http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2013/12/state_trooper_cant_have_gun_wh.html (http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2013/12/state_trooper_cant_have_gun_wh.html)

When on duty, he can carry a gun.

Yet while off duty, he is barred by law from possessing any firearms, because seven years ago he suffered from deep depression, repeatedly tried to kill himself by taking drugs and was involuntarily committed for mental health treatment.

Title: Re: Trooper can't have gun while off duty due to mental health record
Post by: Jeff on December 31, 2013, 10:51:37 PM

Wow, there is some elitism right there for ya.  You are unfit to possess a firearm, but since you're a trooper (somehow) just go ahead and have one but just while on duty.

Cool, what's next, revoked drivers licenses due to repeated drunk driving charges being allowed to drive a school buss?

Title: Re: Trooper can't have gun while off duty due to mental health record
Post by: jfmi87 on January 01, 2014, 02:04:07 AM

There are restricted drivers licenses. You can still drive a car, but under only certain circumstances, to/from. I would hardly classify this trooper as 'elite' in this situation. Imagine what humiliation he must be suffering from his peers, and how it affects his career. He may never be promoted.

The whole thing is nothing but a gun grab. It screams backdoor gun control. If it weren't for that pesky second amendment in the way no one would own guns except for and to protect the truly elite, but the best that can be done is to create arbitrary guidelines on who can own them. If you sneeze wrong your so called right to bear arms is taken away forever. As already mentioned in another thread, someone can simply say you are a threat to others/self and your so called right to bear arms is taken away by the stroke of a doctor's pen. Forever.

The 2A doesn't say anything about a privilege.

Title: Re: Trooper can't have gun while off duty due to mental health record
Post by: gryphon on January 01, 2014, 02:18:33 AM

jfmi87, have you considered you have this backward?  The trooper should be able to carry a gun off-duty, but not on-duty. 

Title: Re: Trooper can't have gun while off duty due to mental health record
Post by: part deux on January 01, 2014, 08:35:19 AM

Good idea for someone in a position of authority, with history of psychotic issues to have a firearm AT ANY TIME?

Title: Re: Trooper can't have gun while off duty due to mental health record
Post by: gryphon on January 01, 2014, 05:08:16 PM

I don't think he should be able to carry a gun while in a position of authority (at work).  Self-protection is another matter.

In any event, it would seem the judge's ruling flies in the face of federal regulations on firearms and ammunition possession.