HIPAA and NICS: Balancing Two Necessary Evils

By Dr. Timothy Wheeler, M.D. The years 2011 and 2012 saw a rash of horrible high profile murders whose suspected perpetrators bore the striking common trait of serious mental illness.  In all cases—the Aurora, Colorado movie theater mass shootings, the Newtown, Connecticut school shootings, and the shooting of Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords—the suspects were known in advance by their families or associates to be seriously disturbed.  Aurora shooting suspect James Holmes had even seen ...
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Violence Policy Center Tries It Again—Consumer Regulation of Firearms

The Huffington Post wasn’t even around when Dr. Tim Wheeler and Dave Kopel exposed in National Review Online the gun controllers’ latest scheme of back door gun prohibition by consumer product regulation. But it’s now providing the Violence Policy Center’s Josh Sugarmann a platform from which to try it again. Perhaps Huff Po editors are hoping gun owners had forgotten about the old scam. Read what Congress thought of the idea back in 1975, the first time the gun ban crowd tried it: “Members ...
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