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J Am Acad Psychiatry Law 37:4:545-548 (2009)
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ANALYSIS AND COMMENTARY

Gun Laws and the Involuntarily Committed: A California Road Map

Sohrab Zahedi, MD, Robert Burchuk, MD, David C. Stone, MD and Alex Kopelowicz, MD

Dr. Zahedi is a Fellow in Forensic Psychiatry, UCLA/San Fernando Valley Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship Program, Olive View-UCLA Medical Center. Dr. Burchuk is a Forensic Psychiatrist in Private Practice, Woodland Hills, CA. Dr. Stone is Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Consultation Liaison Division, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA. Dr. Kopelowicz is Chief of Psychiatry, Olive View-UCLA Medical Center, Sylmar, CA, and Associate Professor of Psychiatry, The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA. Address correspondence to: Sohrab Zahedi, MD, Department of Forensic Psychiatry, Olive View-UCLA Medical Center, 14445 Olive View Drive, Sylmar, CA 91342. E-mail: sobzi{at}mac.com

The 2007 incident at Virginia Tech brought the question of gun ownership by the mentally ill to the forefront of public attention. Moreover, it underscored the potentially devastating consequences of the imperfect connection between federal and state laws that apply to the right of gun ownership by a psychiatric patient. The laws are complex, and, as demonstrated in this article, conflicting. We present a case report of an involuntarily committed patient in the state of California, and discuss details of state and federal laws that applied to him.






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