Dispatcher, from the GOA link you provided, I think we can determine the
source of much of the "information" about H.R.2640 that causes threads like this.
http://gunowners.org/ne0704.htm
Specifically, the following section penned by Mike Hammond:
By Mike Hammond, legislative counsel to GOA
May 15, 2007
SUMMARY In the wake of BATFE's most recent letter of May 9, 2007, spelling out its current position on who is a prohibited person by reason of a mental defect, I have sought to lay out the current state of law. My conclusion is that, particularly in the hands of an anti-gun administration, there is a substantial danger that the term "prohibited person" can include the following:
* Persons who are ordered by courts to be evaluated by psychologists or psychiatrists in connection with child custody or other proceedings (the so-called "Alec Baldwin proviso");
* Persons who, in a wide variety of juvenile cases, are evaluated by psychiatrists because of school-related problems, and perhaps put on Ritalin as a result;
* Seniors receiving home health care under Medicare who are evaluated by professionals for Alzheimer's;
* Veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder; * Persons who are arrested and referred, without due process, for psychiatric evaluation, followed by a finding that the person has no mental or emotional problems or does not require commitment;
* Persons whose psychologists commit them with no due process at all.
The date of this "op-ed" piece is prior to the amended current wording of the version that passed. Even though the wording as engrossed does not include wording to add PTSD and ADHD to the banned list, these views are still being propagated,
whether they are based in fact or not.
ubl180.110.pdf