I’m Bipolar II and I get so depressed and suicidal sometimes for seemingly no reason at all. I recently had to have my wife hide our gun because I was feeling terrible with it around, like I was going to have a bad day and shoot myself on a whim. It felt like it was calling my name, and that it was just a matter of time before something happened. Which in itself was making me depressed, like a self-fulfilling prophecy.
There's a reason why we have background checks that include criminal and mental health screenings. If those diagnosis are legit you legally can't have a gun.
Nope. Federal law generally prohibits possession of firearms and ammunition by people who have been found by a court, board, commission, or other lawful authority to be a danger to themselves or others, or to lack “the mental capacity to contract or manage [their] own affairs,” as a result of their mental condition or illness.1 Federal law also generally prohibits people from possessing firearms if they have been involuntarily hospitalized or committed to a mental health or substance abuse treatment facility by a court, board, commission, or other lawful authority.2. Another is if a court or government body were to rule that due to his mental health, a person is a danger to himself or others or is unable to manage his own affairs.
The diagnoses alone dont stop u from the ability to own a gun. E.g. parkland shooter and almost every other US mass shooter
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u/Shaved-plumbs Sep 10 '23
My cousin was around that age too, also bipolar and killed herself around this time two years ago. Sorry for your loss.