Staff reviewed
APPLICATION FOR RELIEF FROM DISABILITIES IMPOSED BY FEDERAL LAWS WITH RESPECT TO THE ACQUISITION, RECEIPT, TRANSFER, SHIPMENT, TRANSPORTATION, OR POSSESSION OF FIREARMS
— STAFF
This is an operating relief-from-disabilities process with a dangerousness standard attached, and forensic psychiatrists are the practitioners asked to supply the opinion that an applicant is not likely to act dangerously — a process to be advised on, evaluated for, and attested to. Practitioners fielding restoration requests from formerly committed patients now have a federal standard against which their opinion will be measured, rather than a dormant statute.