{"id":11054,"date":"2014-12-19T10:11:55","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T15:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=11054"},"modified":"2014-12-19T10:11:55","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T15:11:55","slug":"court-decision-may-impact-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=11054","title":{"rendered":"Court decision may impact SAFE"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 6th Circuit court decision<\/a> may impact the SAFE Act down the road:<\/p>\n

“… The three-judge panel of the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals<\/a> unanimously ruled that a federal ban on gun ownership for those who have been committed to a mental institution violated the Second Amendment rights of 73-year-old Clifford Charles Tyler.\u00a0 Tyler attempted to buy a gun and was denied on the grounds that he had been committed to a mental institution in 1986 after suffering emotional problems stemming from a divorce.\u00a0 He was only in there for a month … \u201cThe government\u2019s interest in keeping firearms out of the hands of the mentally ill is not sufficiently related to depriving the mentally healthy, who had a distant episode of commitment, of their constitutional rights,\u201d wrote Judge Danny Boggs<\/a> …”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The court used strict scrutiny<\/a> to reach their decision.\u00a0 That could have national ramifications for other gun cases.<\/p>\n