Friday, July 14, 2017

Wife is not sure how to answer mental health question on NV-Res application but never been adjudicated as ill. She's passed 2 previous BG checks for firearm purchases at LGS.


This is a long one, please bear with me here... Not looking for "legal advice", just want to know if anybody has had a similar situation getting their CCW and how it played out.My wife and I are going to apply for the Nevada Resident, Utah Non-Res, and Florida Non-Res permits. I won't have any problem getting mine, but my wife is confused on how to answer the Nevada "mental health facility" question.Here's the situation: In 2012 (A year before we met) she had just gotten out of an abusive relationship with a total POS and was stressed out and depressed. She had nowhere to stay, thought she felt suicidal, and went voluntarily to the ER to get help. They evaluated her, sent a social worker, and were able to find her a place to stay at a crisis center where she could get help and access to a psychiatrist, and provided her counseling to get over the abuse that she endured. She stayed there for ~12 days, and then was able to contact her aunt to stay with her until she could afford to get an apartment. She was never committed to a mental institution, or in anyway legally ruled as mentally ill. It was not an actual insane asylum place. She went on SSI disability for for PTSD/anxiety during that year as well, but got herself together and got a job after like a year and a half. This was all in California. She still sees a shrink (here, in NV) and takes anti-depressants, but she is normal and not a nutcase, has a job. She's purchased 2 firearms on her own, and obviously passed the Nevada point of contact/NICS check from the local gun store. No delay, both were immediate "proceed with sale" and she got them same day.We've scoured thru the Nevada NRS site and thoroughly read the laws. And the law states that you cannot get a CCW here if you've been to a "mental facility" within the last 5 years. However, the definition of mental facility in the law refers to ACTUAL looney bins as part of the Nevada state system. But on question #3 on the CCW application says "have you ever been admitted to a mental health facility?" The place she was at was in California, and not a real mental institution. In December the actual 5 year mark will have been passed.We're hoping to do some traveling to see family in January, and want to have our permits in order so we can both CC without problems. Plus I've heard thru the grapevine that Clark County is running right up to the 120 day mark. She was thinking to apply to Florida first, since their application only asks if it was a legal adjudication of mental illness/mental hospital, which for her, it was not. That should run her thru the system and we think that if nothing pops up, she's good to go for here as well. (We know that she can't carry here w/o a NV license.) She has no criminal past etc. We really don't want to have to take it as far as paying a lawyer, especially since she's almost passed the 5 year mark that the law requires. If she has to wait, then so be it, but we'd like to get them squared away. Yeah she can OC, but her preference is concealed.TL;DR Wife goes to a psych for meds, been to a non-legal, non-mental institution crisis center to deal with past abusive boyfriend, passed NICS before for purchases, wants CCW.Anybody had a similar experience or knows someone that has? What was the outcome? TIA.(I also think it's total BS that someone with a misdemeanor criminal conviction may be able to pass to get a CCW only after 3 years, yet people who have personally sought out help to deal with a traumatic event have to wait 5 years.) via /r/CCW http://ift.tt/2tTEEJf

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