Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden on Monday unveiled proposed legislation that would prohibit gun ownership among individuals who have been found by a court or mental-health professional to have a serious mental illness.
"Federal and state law lists 10 categories of people since 1968 who are not allowed to possess firearms consistent with the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution including those who have been adjudicated mentally ill under federal law or, in Delaware, committed to any hospital or mental institution under Delaware law," Biden said Monday at a press conference promoting the legislation. "But the mental-health category is too narrow and needs to be expanded, which is what this legislation is about."
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