NICS check update/improvement

[Glockman]

Mr. Cho the Va Tech killer passed his instant background check because he had no mental health problems in his background.

The system did not show that he was currently on antidepressant drugs.

Should antidepressant drugs make you a prohibited person for the time that you are on them? 

A documented side effect of these drugs is an increase in suicide in persons under age 24.  Mr Cho was 23.

[DWTim]

I wasn't aware that NICS included medical history. That's generally a well-protected set of private data.

Cho was adjudicated mentally ill, according to that story on Fox News. So that means he lied on the federal form during the transfer, and no one checked.

I don't and have never taken anti-depressants, but if that must be made public for purchasing a firearm, it should also be for getting a driver's license or holding political office. Either way, who is really going to update those records every time someone gets a prescription?

[Glockman]

As the story evolves we find out he was sent for an "involuntary evaluation"   IF it had been an involuntary commitment then it would have shown up when they did the NICS check.    Was he on pills?  That part of the story seems to have gone away/  Did he go off his meds?

[carbine mike]

On BATFE form 4473 (background check)  Line 11,f asks-Have you ever been adjudicated mentally defective (which includes having been adjudicated incompetent to manage your own affairs) or have you ever been committed to a mental institution?