House passes school gun violence bill

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Who decides which people should not be allowed to have guns? And how would it be determined? Should prospective gun buyers be required to pass a psychiatric exam?

It's already been decided and enshrined in law:


Identify Prohibited Persons

The Gun Control Act (GCA), codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), makes it unlawful for certain categories of persons to ship, transport, receive, or possess firearms or ammunition, to include any person:

• convicted in any court of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year;
  
• who is a fugitive from justice;
  
• who is an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance (as defined in section 102 of the Controlled Substances Act, codified at 21 U.S.C. § 802);
  
• who has been adjudicated as a mental defective or has been committed to any mental institution;
  
• who is an illegal alien;
  
• who has been discharged from the Armed Forces under dishonorable conditions;
  
• who has renounced his or her United States citizenship;
  
• who is subject to a court order restraining the person from harassing, stalking, or threatening an intimate partner or child of the intimate partner; or
  
• who has been convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence.
  

The GCA at 18 U.S.C. § 992(n) also makes it unlawful for any person under indictment for a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year to ship, transport, or receive firearms or ammunition.
Further, the GCA at 18 U.S.C. § 922(d) makes it unlawful to sell or otherwise dispose of firearms or ammunition to any person who is prohibited from shipping, transporting, receiving, or possessing firearms or ammunition.