New Jersey Veteran Seeks Restoration Of Gun Rights

By Tom Knighton

AP Photo/Jeff Chiu

Gun rights advocates and gun grabbers rarely agree on much of anything. However, one group that both sides agree should probably not own firearms, though, are those “adjudicated as mentally defective.”

That’s the language in the law that says people with mental illness and mental disabilities, as determined by the courts, shouldn’t own firearms. Even a lot of pro-gun folks don’t want crazy people armed.

But the problem stems from the fact that sometimes, people who aren’t really “crazy” are caught up in this mess. For example, a New Jersey man is in such a situation.

Now, he’s trying to get his gun rights back.

Firearm Owners Against Crime filed a friend of the court brief in U.S. Middle District Court this past week in support of Victor W. Welshans, from the Jersey Shore area.

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He says he voluntarily committed himself for treatment of depression, although documents, which he says are incorrect, state that the admission was involuntary.

The treating physician in his discharge summary stated Welshans was well enough for military duty and to return to work.

He spent 26 years in the military, including a year in Iraq in 2003 and 2004, and retired from the Postal Service after 33 …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms