Source: http://lawcenter.giffords.org/mental-health-related-prohibited-categories-in-california/
Timestamp: 2018-08-19 05:20:09
Document Index: 609924386

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 8100', '§ 8100', '§ 8105', '§ 8100', '§ 8100', '§ 8100', '§ 8103', '§ 8103', '§ 8103', '§ 8103', '§ 8103', '§ 8103', '§ 8103', '§ 8103', '§ 5200']

California prohibits the following people from purchasing or possessing firearms after events related to severe mental health impairments:
Cal. Welf. & Inst. Code § 8100(a). ⤴︎
Cal. Welf. & Inst. Code § 8100(b); see also Cal. Welf. & Inst. Code § 8105(c). Licensed psychotherapists are required to immediately report such threats to local law enforcement which, in turn, is required to immediately report the information to the California Department of Justice (“DOJ”). Id. DOJ must then send, by certified mail, a notification to the individual subject to the prohibition, indicating that the person is prohibited from possessing firearms, the date on which the prohibition ends, and that the person is entitled to petition a court to end the prohibition. Cal. Welf. & Inst. Code § 8100(b)(2). ⤴︎
Cal. Welf. & Inst. Code § 8100(b). ⤴︎
Cal. Welf. & Inst. Code § 8100(b)(3). ⤴︎
Cal. Welf. & Inst. Code § 8103(a). ⤴︎
Cal. Welf. & Inst. Code § 8103(b). ⤴︎
Cal. Welf. & Inst. Code § 8103(d). ⤴︎
Cal. Welf. & Inst. Code § 8103(e). This provision appears to be weaker than federal law, which permanently prohibits a person who lacks the appropriate mental capacity to contract or manage his or her own affairs. It appears that where the period of firearm prohibition has ended under California but not federal law, the subject remains prohibited because the federal prohibition is still in effect. In practice, much depends on whether the record of the mental health prohibition remains in the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System. ⤴︎
Cal. Welf. & Inst. Code § 8103(f). ⤴︎
Cal. Welf. & Inst. Code § 8103(f)(5), (6). ⤴︎
Cal. Welf. & Inst. Code § 8103(g). ⤴︎
Cal. Welf. & Inst. Code § 8103(g)(4). ⤴︎
Cal. Welf. & Inst. Code §§ 5200-5213. ⤴︎