Who can't buy guns?

Who can't buy guns?

People that have a felony background, that are addicted to drugs, people who are, the term in the law is "mentally defective", can't buy guns. When the law was initially passed with that language, it meant not guilty by reason of insanity. In other words, you murdered somebody, you assaulted somebody, but because we're nutty enough to think you're insane, which is often not true at all, we're not going to have you actually convicted, we're just going to put you in a mental institution or something. That's what it meant then. Now we're talking about somebody who might've been on Ritalin, a veteran might have been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress, and we're talking about people like who have never been convicted of anything. At least initially in 1968, people had been convicted of an actual crime but now the term has been made so elastic that it's on the verge of including those definitions if a bill before the congress is to go onto the books.