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Rich, Regardless of whether he should have been locked up, I believe, contrary to reports, that he was ineligible to purchase a firearm. I’m a gun dealer and the form states “Have you ever been ajudicated mentally defective or have you ever been commited to a mental institution?” He apparently was both and that should have shown up on a background check. Why it did not I don’t know.

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Rich,
Regarding the ability of him to purchase a gun, I thought I saw on Fox last night that the judge did not commit him to an institution but only to an outpatient clinic and because of that, it wasn’t an order that would have been reported or shown up when he purchased his firearms.