Citation

Zahedi S, Burchuk R, Stone DC, Kopelowicz A. J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry Law 2009; 37(4): 545-548.

Affiliation

Department of Forensic Psychiatry, Olive View-UCLA Medical Center, 14445 Olive View Drive, Sylmar, CA 91342. sobzi@mac.com.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2009, American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, Publisher American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

20019003

Abstract

The 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.

Language: en